Fascinating Air Plant Without Roots SPANISH MOSS How to grow, Take care, Propagate uses Gardening

Spanish moss is an epiphytic plant, also known as an air plant. This plant gets all of the water and nutrients that it needs from the air, rain and animal fecal matter (which is high in nitrogen). There are no roots that penetrate the tree bark to steal resources. Spanish moss has small, scale like leaves that allow it to hold onto the bark, without damaging it.Spanish moss consists of one or more slender stems, bearing alternate thin, curved or curly, and heavily scaled leaves 2–6 cm (0.8–2.4 inches) long and 1 mm (0.04 inches) broad, that grow vegetatively in a chain-like fashion (pendant), forming hanging structures of up to 6 m (20 feet)..The plant has no roots, and its brown, green, yellow, or grey flowers are tiny and inconspicuous. It propagates both by seed and vegetatively by fragments that are carried on the wind and stick to tree limbs or that are carried to other locations by birds as nesting material.

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