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 ...

CLEVELAND--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A natural hue that brings the poetic expressions of nature into the home, Spanish Moss is the Krylon® 2023 Color of the Year. A nod to all things vintage, this familiar yet ...

The genus Tillandsia includes both air plants and Spanish moss. The air plants we see in stores and nurseries are sold under their common name or their genus name, Tillandsia. Spanish moss, also ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

My Tuscarora crepe myrtle bush, near a large ash tree next door shedding Spanish moss, seems to be choking on the moss and/or gray lichen on its branches. How can I get the moss off without getting ...

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 ...