Few sights are more evocative of the South than a spreading live oak tree festooned with Spanish moss -- “hanging down from the limbs like long gray beards,” as Mark Twain wrote in Huckleberry Finn.

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) How ...

EAST TEXAS - A lady from Huntington called me this week complaining of Spanish moss in her oaks. She’s lived at her residence for over 20 years and this year was the first year that she found Spanish ...

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. But scientists ...

It's spooky, romantic, swaying, and quintessentially Southern: Spanish moss is a plant shrouded in mystery. What follows is "Spanish Moss 101," a brief course on this fascinating epiphyte. (Don't ...

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 moss ...

My first experience with Spanish moss happened when I was a child visiting my aunt who lived on Old St. Augustine Road in Tallahassee. My family had driven all the way from New York. As we approached ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Spanish moss is not Spanish, but it was almost French—and these are just a few of the secrets the moss, that’s not even really a moss, has been hiding in the swamps of ...

There's something about live oaks draped in Spanish moss that defines The South. But Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) is not just here; it has the largest distribution of any species in the ...