It's actually neither Spanish nor a moss. Spanish moss is one of those plants everyone knows at least one fun fact about. For me, growing up visiting my aunt and uncle on St. Simons Island ...

Epiphytes are plants that live without having roots in the soil; they live in trees or sometimes on man-made structures like fences! The most visible epiphyte for us in South Carolina is Spanish moss, ...

The plant has nothing to do with Spain and it is not a true moss. Believe it or not, the plant is closely related to the pineapple.

Apparently, some people think Spanish moss hurts their trees or don’t like the way it looks and pay companies to remove it – it probably will come back since it’s a flowering plant and the seeds get ...