Spanish moss absorbs water through tiny scales on its surface, allowing it to retain more water than it needs to survive. Along with the sun it enjoys by lying and draping around the branches of large ...

Spanish moss is not parasitic as it does not penetrate trees and steal their nutrients. It is an air plant or epiphyte, able to pull moisture and nutrients from the air and rain.

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 ...

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 ...

Spanish moss does, however, serve an important ecological role as housing for a variety of wildlife. ... The strands turn bright green. I have never gotten chiggers when doing this. (4) ...

The gray scales may give Spanish moss its color, but don't let that color fool you: Spanish moss is a green plant (look at it when it is wet). The green color comes from chlorophyll.

Spanish moss isn't, by the way, a true moss at all but a vascular plant that reproduces via tiny flowers. But it is an epiphytic plant. Most of our lichens, for instance, are epiphytic upon rocks ...

Spanish moss is not a parasite; its tiny gray scales trap nutrients and moisture from the air. There are no roots. Therefore there is a higher incidence of moss around lakes and rivers, ...

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 ...

Spanish moss, and other variants, are epiphytes and take nothing from the plants they cling to, but at times compete for foliage sites. By Tom MacCubbin UPDATED: April 24, 2019 at 2:28 AM EDT ...