Spanish Moss hanging from Southern Live Oaks has been featured in movies and media making it a very recognizable plant and visitors have even tried to take a piece of the south back home. People have used Spanish moss for everything from clothing, to packing material, tea, to seat stuffing. This plant loves humid, moist environments. It does not directly harm the tree, although an abundance can block some sunlight from reaching leaves. Spanish Moss gets water and sunlight by hanging off of high branches in trees. It’s actually a native air plant or epiphyte, more closely related to pineapple than to moss. The poorly named Spanish Moss hanging from the trees around you is neither Spanish nor a moss. Look up, to the right, to the left, surrounding you here is a southern icon.
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