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.

Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part “What’s on my tree?” series about organisms that are commonly found growing on trees in Louisiana. Here in Louisiana, we’re all familiar with Spanish ...

In the Lowcountry, live oaks are lavishly decorated in gray-bearded Spanish moss. Why aren’t live oaks lining South Boundary and in Hopelands also heavily festooned in moss? There’s plenty of ...

If you live near live oak trees, you will often see plants like Spanish moss or lichens growing on them. You might also see ...