Look at any live oak with Spanish moss within its branches, and you will see the "moss" is simply draped thinly over the branches, while the tree's stems safely protrude through it with their ...

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 ...

Entering Selma's oft-photographed Live ... any iconic southern city - New Orleans, Mobile, Charleston, Natchez, Savannah - and you likely imagine Spanish moss hanging from stately trees.

An epiphyte (“air plant”), Spanish moss uses tree branches for support. Its wiry, branching, rootless stems--up to 15-20 feet long--bear tiny leaves with numerous overlapping scales. The ...

When I was growing up on Johns Island, S.C., near Charleston, our non-air-conditioned house and entire yard were shaded by two massive, spreading Southern live oak trees shrouded in Spanish moss.

If you head to Georgia, you will find sprawling southern live oak trees older than the Declaration of Independence. Often adorned in Spanish moss, the evergreen mammoths are featured in postcards ...

“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 ...

It’s almost impossible to think of the bayou state without having at least one vision of Spanish moss hanging from the outstretched, arthritic limbs of an aged live oak or cypress tree.

But ball moss and its cousin, Spanish moss ... an environment commonly provided by southern shade trees, often the southern live oak. It looks like gray clumps on branches of trees and bushes.

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 ...