Need to identify this tree - Mimosa maybe?

boobot

Just moved into a new house and I'm not sure what this tree is! We haven't had enough time in the house to see it flower so the pictures are the best description. We are in Houston, Tx. Thanks for looking!

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Brent Ferris

The foliage looks like Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides)

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Alex Metzler

Foliage sure looks simillar to the metasequoia glyptostroboides, dawn redwood is a deciduous evergreen, meaning it loses its needles yearly, but is cone bearing aswell, and is one of the only species that does this besides the tamarack or larch (larix hackmatack) or bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) and all are in the cupressaceae family. Perhaps check the ground for needles that the tree may have shed, they lose them all @ once....

w8ye

The tree is definitely not a Mimosa. The leaf petals have the wrong layout and shape. The shape of the whole tree is also wrong for a Mimosa.

Lets try for something more native to Texas like a Bald Cypress

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w8ye

I cannot go back and edit my previous post so . . . .

I would like to support my previous comment about a species being common to Texas and specifically to Houston.

The Mimosa is from China and is extremely common in the deep South USA but as previously stated, the specific example is not a Mimosa.

The Dawn Redwood is a tree more common to California but it is not out of the realm of possibility that one could be in a residential setting in Houston.

At first glance the tree is a Cypress and they are native to the Houston area. I know many people are used to seeing them in swamps with Cypress knees sticking up all around but they can be a nice ornamental yard tree also.

There are some Cypress trees in a park near where I live in Ohio and though they are not native around here, these have been in that park for many years and look very much like the example in the first post.

Brent Ferris

Hard to be sure from the pic, but the branchlets appear to be opposite - typical of Metasequoia, whereas the branchlets of Taxodium are alternate, Need more info from boobot.

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