Spanish moss hangs from a live oak tree near Lake Ivanhoe in Orlando on Feb. 16. Putting it to use. Spanish moss was once harvested commercially and used as a stuffing material for car upholstery, ...

Q. Mobile, Charleston and New Orleans are noted for their magnificent live oak trees, many of which have Spanish moss hanging from their limbs. I have several questions about this gray plant. (1 ...

Most likely it is. Spanish moss is the most common name for this epiphytic plant, which are plants that grow on others but don’t rely on their hosts for nutrients. Some of its other names are… ...

Q. Mobile, Charleston and New Orleans are noted for their magnificent live oak trees, many of which have Spanish moss hanging from their limbs. I have several questions about this gray plant. (1 ...

Spanish moss grows in harmony with many of our native trees and gives a "Deep South" look to our live oaks. In some cases, the moss will get extremely heavy and could break a branch.

We just moved to Jacksonville from up north and I want to know if Spanish moss is harming my oak trees. There is also some kind of gray-green moss growing on the trunks. Let’s talk about Spanish ...

"Well, it is the South. When they see magnolias and Spanish moss hanging in live oak trees. It cannot go very far to the north because of the freezing conditions so it is well established in the ...

It’s not the biggest. It’s not the oldest. But it’s rare to find a big oak in such a highly developed area. Here’s how it manages to thrive at a Burger King in Beaufort.

Spanish moss is not a moss, nor is it Spanish. It is a native, perennial, epiphytic herb. It is in the Bromeliad family, kin to pineapples. An epiphyte, or air plant, grows upon trees for support ...

Charles Seabrook’s “Wild Georgia” column appears weekly in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. When I was growing up on Johns Island, S.C., near Charleston, our non-air-conditioned house and ...

Q. Mobile, Charleston and New Orleans are noted for their magnificent live oak trees, many of which have Spanish moss hanging from their limbs. I have several questions about this gray plant. (1 ...