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.

Yet another reason to love our local nature – our epiphytic bromeliads, and an odd, beautiful orchid, lend the humid hammocks and swamps of south Georgia a jungle-like, subtropical feel. Epiphytes, ...

It's actually neither Spanish nor a moss. Spanish moss is one of those plants everyone knows at least one fun fact about. For me, growing up visiting my aunt and uncle on St. Simons Island, Georgia, I ...

FLORAL CITY | Dawn Klug apparently loves Spanish moss more than anyone in Florida, if not the world. She lives in rural Citrus County, where Spanish moss hangs from every oak tree like Pa Kettle's ...

I always thought one of the neatest things about Florida when I visited as a kid was the Spanish moss clinging to the trees. The thick gray drapery over the many oaks and other hardwoods gave the ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – 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 ...

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 ...