What kind of tree is this ??

[Lakeside]

I stopped at a new park last weekend and they had a couple of these trees.. Note the bell shaped trunk and the close-up picture of the leaves. My first thought was a Ceder or a Cypress but my internet searches have not helped me determine what it is . Do you know ? I guess I could always stop back at the park and ask the maintenance dept people. The trees are located in Central Mass near the Connecticut border a little far north for cypress if I am correct.

 

[hickoryhoarder]

I'd also say a redwood, cedar, or cypress.

 

[begreen]

At first I thought mimosa, but maybe not. Is it deciduous and does it flower?

 

[CincyBurner]

dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) - I have a specimen in my yard.
https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=a396

Beautiful, soft, feathery foliage. It's a deciduous conifer, so needles drop in fall. Needle arrangement is opposite (bald cypress, another common deciduous conifer has alternate needle arrangement.

A curiosity: there remain stumps (not fossils) on Axel Heiberg Island in Nunavet, Canada (above the 80* parallel !).​

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/23b2/6f87a4bb8799fd0d2e9cec5222c89bb56baf.pdf​

 

[Lakeside]

dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides)

Cincyburner --- called it --- Thanks you

Interesting tree, shortest of the redwoods with a long history.

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[Mutineer]

Yeah, I have one of the meta sequoias in my yard, my son brought a sapling to us from when he was working at Longwood Gardens in Philly a few years back. Thriving in the NE Ohio environment, gotta watch out for their roots that surge up through the yard when they get bigger, they can stop a lawnmower blade cold.