A forest is really a community of plants and animals. Within this large community are smaller groups of living things that grow together. Even an individual tree often has an association of plants ...

Whether dangling from limbs of oaks, bald cypress or other trees, Spanish moss is a familiar sight to Floridians. Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides), totally unrelated to true mosses, is actually a ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part “What’s on my tree?” series about organisms that are commonly found growing on trees in Louisiana. Here in Louisiana, we’re all familiar with Spanish ...