Among the most beautiful and singular trees in Burcina Park is the "bald cypress," Taxodium disticum, tree with very distinctive roots, which coming out of the ground resemble real sculptures.
Originally from North America, it was imported from the southern counties of the United States of America to adorn wetlands in gardens, that is, those ponds that were often used to be included within settings inspired by a harmonious, romantic idea of landscape architecture: undulating avenues, groves, fake ruins, caves, neoclassical statues, and ponds.
Trees usually prefer dry soil; cypresses, on the other hand, do not suffer in water; rather, they produce ephemeral roots, the pneumatophores, which can rise up to 30-40 cm above the ground to allow the tree to breathe even if the soil is under water.
As writer Tiziano Fratus states: «they are regal bearing trees, straight and sturdy, with thick greenish foliage that turns dark, cardinal red in autumn and then sheds its leaves. A conifer, like our mountain larches, that sheds its leaves with the arrival ofwinter».
