If you look up into the branches of an old oak tree ... Trees laden with Spanish moss are often rich with wildlife. Many birds — including warblers — make nests in the hanging material.

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 ...

Mobile, Charleston and New Orleans are noted for their magnificent live oak trees, many of which have Spanish moss hanging from their ... (4) Is the moss harmful to the tree?

Mobile, Charleston and New Orleans are noted for their magnificent live oak trees, many of which have Spanish moss hanging from their ... (4) Is the moss harmful to the tree?

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 or cypress tree.

Its beefy trunk erupts a few feet from the noisy road as exhaust-spewing vehicles whiz by, while its limbs, draped with Spanish moss ... tree,” he said. But there’s more to the live oak ...

The dangling strands of Spanish moss commonly found hanging from live oak and crape myrtle trees in ... in that its seeds can simply blow onto tree branches, germinate and grow into long, gray ...

“I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing / All alone stood it, and the moss hung down from the branches ... South to Texas and Oklahoma, with low-hanging branches that seem to beckon ...