black moss

Noun
  1. Dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots;
    Southeastern United States and West Indies to South America (synset 112628888)
    is a type of: aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant - plant that derives moisture and nutrients from the air and rain; usually grows on another plant but not parasitic on it
    belongs to: genus tillandsia, tillandsia - large genus of epiphytic or terrestrial sparse-rooting tropical plants usually forming dense clumps or pendant masses
    same as: long moss, old man's beard, spanish moss, tillandsia usneoides

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