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Does Spanish moss harm live oak trees?

It's a common myth that Spanish moss damages live oak trees. Find out the truth and learn about the benefits of Spanish moss for wildlife.

AIKEN MASTER GARDENERS: Spanish moss is the pride of the coastal South

In the Lowcountry, live oaks are lavishly decorated in gray-bearded Spanish moss. Why aren’t live oaks lining South Boundary ...
NOLA.com

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but your trees might and this kind can cause problems.

Put plainly, ball moss isn’t pretty. While Spanish moss can look like a sophisticated adornment, greenish-gray clumps of ball ...
Charlotte Observer

Spanish moss: Where it came from, why it’s not really moss, and what its used for

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.
WKRG

Here’s how Spanish Moss got its name

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Spanish moss is not Spanish, but it was almost French—and these are just a few of the secrets the moss, that’s not even really a moss, has been hiding in the swamps of ...
Yahoo

A mile of the Spanish Moss Trail to be off limits for 2 months. Here’s where and why

For two months, a near-mile stretch of the Spanish Moss Trail will close to allow for the construction of a new fishing pier and fix-ups to an existing pedestrian bridge. A Beaufort County ...
KLFY News 10

Here’s how Spanish Moss got its name

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – 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 ...