Spanish moss is not parasitic and only uses the bark of mostly southern live oak and bald cypress trees as a place to hang and gather minerals. The only time the epiphyte may pose a problem is if ...

But for healthy trees, Spanish moss just makes them look chic. I recently picked up a clump of Spanish moss blown out of a southern live oak in Beaufort, South Carolina, and found the undamaged ...

But for healthy trees, Spanish moss just makes them look chic. I recently picked up a clump of Spanish moss blown out of a southern live oak in Beaufort, and found the undamaged nest of a yellow ...

The dangling strands of Spanish moss commonly found hanging from live oak and crape myrtle trees in the Southeast are so alluring that some might want to bring it indoors to decorate.

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss ... trees can live for over a thousand years—and for its signature limbs, with their sinuous, gangly quirkiness ...

It’s the ideal Southern live oak, Quercus virginia ... The live oak tree has a symbiotic relationship with the Spanish moss and lichens that thrive in its branches. (Sophia Abolfathi ...

When she dies, her lover places her long hair on a live oak tree ... Articles about Spanish moss often talk about its “haunting beauty” or it contribution to “Southern gothic” imagery ...

A tree branch doing something I’d never seen before. To the right, I could see a great oak ... species, southern live oaks host and support many other diverse species including Spanish mosses ...

But for healthy trees, Spanish moss just makes them look chic. I recently picked up a clump of Spanish moss blown out of a southern live oak in Beaufort, South Carolina, and found the undamaged nest ...