hanging moss
Southern oak adornment
Hanging moss is Spanish moss—the grayish-green plant that drapes from trees in the American South, creating the atmospheric look of old plantations and swamps.
The name describes how it hangs in long, beard-like strands from branches: Live oaks draped with hanging moss lined the road.
It's not actually a moss but an air plant related to pineapples.
- drapeHang in folds
- swampWaterlogged land with vegetation
- swamp waterLiquid in marshland
- oakQuercus genus member
- cypressDurable-wooded coniferous evergreen
southern · gray · wispy · trailing · bayou · humid · humid air · ghost · ethereal · branch · lichens · curtain · misty · foggy morning · dangling · epiphyte · live oak · beard
- cloud forestsepiphytes, bromeliads, orchids, tree ferns, cloud cover
- bryophytesliverwort, hornworts, liverworts, radula
- tropical plantshibiscus, bougainvillea, frangipani, mahogany, palm trees
- wetlandsswamp, swamps, marsh, marshes, marshland
- epiphytesair plants, air plant, staghorn fern, bird's nest fern, bromeliad
- rainforest plantsbamboo, palm, fern, orchid, vine