Bay Street Live Oak – Beaufort County, South Carolina
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Spanish moss, a common sight in South Carolina, is an epiphyte which pulls nutrients from the air and rainfall. Often seen hanging over the limbs of live oaks, it is a flowering plant, and not a moss or a lichen, as its name would imply. Robin Seabury of Goose Creek took this photo of a live oak in downtown Beaufort in May 2008.
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She writes: “While driving down the main street of Beaufort, I saw this fabulous live oak with the Spanish moss hanging so beautifully. This is so ‘Old South’ to me and it brings back some of my fantasies of being a little girl playing under this fabulous tree.”
One Comment about Bay Street Live Oak
April 23rd, 2012 at 6:41 pm
My Grandmother, God rest her, use to have, and they are still there, huge live oaks in her yard at the entrance to the Surf Club in North Myrtle Beach. They are the greatest trees to play in. I was everything from Errol Flynn, of whom at my age I had only Sat and Sun movies on cable to remember him by, to Peter Pan and the Lost Boys Tree. The beards of Spanish Moss we made and then learned the dreaded word “CHIGGERS” lol There’s a lot of life in those live oaks.
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