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Spanish Moss

Tillandsia usneoides

Photo by HeatherMiller
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Field Notes

Description:

Spanish moss is the hanging tan/grey/green stuff that hangs from the branches of these Southern Live Oaks and other tress.

Habitat:

Branches of Southern Live Oaks and other large tress. These pictures were Pebble Hill Plantation in Thomasville, GA.

Notes:

LIttle red bugs called Chiggers often live in the Spanish Moss. They bite humans and the bite looks different than a mosquito bite. Spanish Moss is used as a decorative dried plant often around the base of plants grown indoors in pots, but it's been sterilized of Chiggers.

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PublishedJune 11, 2011

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