think my bonsai is dying

[Stacey De Castro]

Hey, I received a Taxodium distichum for my birthday every thing was going great until last week Thursday I got home and its leaves had shrunked and are crunchy.
I water it twice a day because as its summer here in Portugal and I live in a really hot and dry area were the temperature has been in between 29-39ºC this past week. Since Thursday I've carried on watering it and have started to mist the leaves about 3 times a day.
I cant understand what happened is there anything I can do? because the leaves are still green they just really crunchy.

[tomc]

Bald cypress is bottomland plant that can live in the deep south,

In order for its rather soft needles to be "crunchy" it had to totally dry out. I think you tree may be dead.

[Stacey De Castro]

Thank you for the help will see what happens because some of the leaves have started to open, so hopefully there is still some hope. I also pruned it to take the leaves that were looking really died off so it uses its energy on the ones that seem like they might just make it