Richard Evans is the agriculture and natural resources agent for Bryan/Liberty County Cooperative Extension. Reach him at 912-653-2231 or [email protected] (Bryan ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Science offers one story. But Savannah always seems to have another.