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We just moved to Jacksonville from up north and I want to know if Spanish moss is harming my oak trees. There is also some kind of gray-green moss growing on the trunks. Let’s talk about Spanish ...
If you look up into the branches of an old oak tree, you are likely to notice clumps of thick grayish strands draping the branches and reaching toward the ground. Spanish moss wraps around the ...
We just moved to Jacksonville from up north and I want to know if Spanish moss is harming my oak trees. There is also some kind of gray-green moss growing on the trunks. Let’s talk about Spanish ...
Spanish moss is a "very opportunistic" plant in that its seeds can simply blow onto tree branches, germinate and grow into long, gray strands. It's random where it finds a host. Besides oak trees ...
When the tree started growing around 1692, the Salem witch trials were being held in the American Colonies and Spanish colonists were retaking control of Santa Fe.
Massive southern live oaks draped with Spanish moss give many towns character, charm and sometimes their names -- Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Live Oak, Fla. -- or nicknames, like the Druid City for Tuscaloosa.
The 1,000-year-old Bowthorpe Oak in Lincolnshire, a hollow tree with ancient graffiti inside and boasting the claim three dozen people once stood inside it, came third with 14%.
A restaurant chain has apologized after sparking outrage when it cut down an oak tree in London that was believed to be up to 500 years old.
This week we're looking at the "Southern red oak” or “Spanish oak,” Quercus falcata. There is one growing in my front yard here in Columbia. It’s a wonderful tree, must be 70 feet tall ...
Buffalo Trace is releasing the next edition of its Old Charter Oak series, Spanish Oak Bourbon, matured entirely in Spanish oak barrels ...
A magnificent Spanish Holm Oak has been voted "European Tree of the Year" for 2021. It's the first time Spain has ever won in the competition's 10 year history.