What's Happening to Florida's Trees?
An appalling sight greeted my sister and me when we passed through the southern tip of Georgia into Florida, a proliferation of Spanish Moss.
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32 Comments
Post a CommentThat stuff is so pretty hanging there though!
"Spanish" moss indeed! Cuban moss is more likely. Seriously, these are some interesting and well-shot photos.
Lovely pictures:)
It does look pretty, but I'm sure Floridians like their trees the way they were meant to be.
I live on the gulf coast of Florida and it is a tragedy what that parasite is doing to out beautiful native flora. People think it is old south, but in reality it is one plant destroying another.
I think it's pretty!
Is the proliferation of Spanish moss trees a bad thing? A tree is a tree is a tree, right?
wow, looks like they are decorated for Christmas!
Spanish moss (neither Spanish nor moss) is an epiphyte - it doesn't take anything from the tree or kill it (sometimes, it may smother a tree, shutting out the light, but that's pretty rare). It's very much a part of the southern landscape and has been for a long, long time. Check my article, http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2487210/spanish_moss_facts_and_fiction.html, for more information.
Haven't noticed a change...thought it was just a Southern thing!