Wood is hard, heavy, straight-grained and easy to work.
Fatty foods stored in baldcypress containers will not be flavored by the wood. Resin from the cones was once used as a healing balm. Baldcypress trees are not extremely important to wildlife. Bald cypress swamp habitats are rich feeding grounds for waterfowl-providing an abundance of insect life, aquatic and shoreline vegetation, and crustaceans. Baldcypress trees are widely planted as ornamentals in the northern states, southern Canada and Europe.