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 ...

Spanish moss is a flowering plant belonging to the pineapple family (Bromeliads). The plant starts off as a feathery seed that floats on the air until lodging on a tree trunk or branch. If conditions ...

Q. Have I endangered my mango tree by hanging a few strips of Spanish moss from the branches? At first I put it in the center of the branches but noticed bugs collected there. I was afraid the bugs ...

Q. There is lots of Spanish moss growing in our trees. Is it true that the moss can kill the trees? A. What would Florida be without Spanish moss draping from the trees? While it looks like it could ...

Q: I have Spanish moss in my oak trees. My neighbor has his sprayed and removed. Should I do the same? I didn't think that Spanish moss got on trees that were healthy in the first place. Do you need ...

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 ...

Whether dangling from limbs of oaks, bald cypress or other trees, Spanish moss is a familiar sight to Floridians. Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides), totally unrelated to true mosses, is actually a ...

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 Florida ...

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.

Normally, I love driving down the back roads of the North Suncoast. On canopy roads, the trees arch overhead, their limbs draped with Spanish moss. In open fields, the limbs of a solitary oak sweep ...