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Concho Billy - Big Cypress NP

(This photo is a 360-degree IPIX interactive image, which allows you to navigate with your mouse: up, down, right and left, in order to see the entire surrounding landscape.)

Navigate around this 360° view of cypress trees and common reeds (Phragmites) along Concho Billy Trail. Cypress trees commonly have buttressed bases and cypress "knees". The knees are thought to aid the roots by providing oxygen to the often-waterlogged cypress. Common reed is a large grass plant of Florida. It can grow to 16-feet tall and its leaves can grow to 2-feet long. Common reed can be found in deep standing waters or in moist soils.

When the photo is first loaded, to the left you see cypress trees that have buttressed bases and to the right you see tall common reed.

Navigating to the right, the tall, grassy common reed predominates and the sandy Concho Billy Trail is seen through the grasses. Continuing to the right, cypress trees with buttressed bases predominates.

Navigating up with your mouse, you can see blue sky through the cypress and reed canopy. Navigating down, you see the South Florida Information Access (SOFIA) web site logo, which is linked to the SOFIA main page (http://sofia.usgs.gov).

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