TILLANDSIA USNEOIDES

Also called "long moss", Tillandsia usneoides is an epiphyte that drapes itself on trees. In forests it prefers trees with reduced foliage or far-and-wide reaching branches. Its wiry stems can festoon in the same place for years and flourish even after its host tree is dead. Old festoons occasionally coil itself around the limbs of the tree appearing to have some enclosed connection with the bark. When left unmoved it can be subjected up to two months of rainless exposure and strong winds without injury.  Often, the weight of a dense growth of T. usneoides would cause the small limbs of trees or twigs to break and fall off. However, in high winds, a detachment of the moss could possibly and quite casually latch itself on another tree.

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