My children were pretty excited the other morning when I woke them with the news that Spanish moss had burst into flower. They responded differently, my son with a groan and my daughter with a ...

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 ...

Festoons of pearly gray dripping from majestic oaks. The symbol of the South swaying silver in the breeze. Or for you is Spanish moss a parasitic killer crawling with voracious insects, intent upon ...

Perhaps you’ve gazed up at Sunshine State trees and noticed long, curly strands of organic material dangling and swaying in the breeze. Maybe you’ve wondered, “What are those scraggly strings?” Or ...

It's been called both picturesque and spooky, but whatever you think of it, Spanish moss draping live oaks and bald cypress contributes a lot to the look of New Orleans and southeast Louisiana.

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 ...

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.

In the winter, when I’m less distracted by other plants, I’m struck by just how much Spanish moss we have in the Lowcountry. It’s hard to find a spreading live oak that isn’t draped with long, ...

Q: Spanish moss is in my dogwood and crape myrtles. Should I spray it or leave it alone? I am afraid it will hurt the tree. A: Spanish moss is a common air plant or epiphytes that we see in the trees ...