Similar bark is found on American yellowwood (Cladrastis kentuckea, Zone 4 to- 8), making this tree, its branches dripping with white flowers in spring and covered with golden leaves in fall, a year-round attraction.

A row of ancient oak trees marched down the median, spaced widely enough when they were planted so that now their branches, dripping with Spanish moss, provided a perfect canopy for the street and the front yards of the homes that faced it.

Dense thickets of halfdrowned trees pressed close around them, branches dripping with curtains of pale fungus.

What he'd felt was chilly and damp from the wet branches dripping on his head.

And in another corner there was a padded, high-backed rocking chair, a TV set, and a potted tree, and from the ceiling hung a huge plant with long segmented branches dripping with red flowers.

Visitors are invited, at their peril, to make their way up the long avenue of ancient live oaks, their gnarled branches dripping with rustling Spanish moss, past the ghouls lurking in their coffins on the vast lawn.

Everywhere, in courtyards, along pathways, filling fields, are mango trees, their branches dripping with the heavy green pendants of ripening fruit.