Cypress: The Wood Eternal  Cypress: The Wood Eternal     •
Cypress: The Wood Eternal  Published Date    • published 1941
There is frequently a wide variation of color with one shade
usually predominating in a given locality. For instance, the
prevailing type found in the deep swamps of the St. Johns River
is amber, referred to as yellow cypress, while that growing on
the fringe or shallow swamps of the St. Johns is decidedly
darker and possessed of stronger grain. The typical amber wood
of the Apalachicola and other alluvial river swamps occasionally
gradates to dark brown or chocolate and when cut often presents
dark stripes on a lighter background.  Trees that show the dark-
red bands of the heavier summerwood, especially in the lower
Mississippi River delta, are known as red cypress. Wood from the
northern regions is referred to as white cypress. In southern
lumber camps, logs that float high are also called "white"
regardless of actual color. In lumber camps along the Atlantic
coast, heavy wood which sin