Green vegetation on smoking wood

[Russ]

I generally buy my pecan wood from a sporting good store and it comes in a big bag and still has bark on it but is split (not chunks but logs). I pulled one piece out to toss on the fire and noticed it had very small green vegetation on it of some sort growing on the bark. I suspect its just a moss of some sort, but its stringy, not wet or moist, just kind of stringy green stems. Is this going to do anything to the flavor of my meat?

 

[Steve Petrone]

Russ some people remove bark...the other extreme is to throw anything on the fire. I fall in the middle. My experience is that bark is ok-I would not want anything green on the wood however.