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440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Southern needleleaf (Tillandsia setacea) is an epiphyte that lacks a "tank" as shown on the red wild pine (Tillandsia fasciculata) in the upper left but has more structure than atmospheric epiphytes like Spanish moss and ball moss. Its knitting needle like…
Ball moss (Tillandsia recurvata) is an atmospheric epiphyte that looks like balled-up Spanish moss. Both of these absolutely rootless perennial plants can be found fastened to power lines, rocks, fences, and, of course, other plants. Ball moss can be found…
Epiphytic plants need to find a way to compensate for what they do not have -- roots that draw nutrients from the soil. Bromeliads like the green wild pine (Tillandsia utriculata) pictured above with vase-shaped shoots -- or "tanks" --…
Spanish moss (Tillandsia usenoides) is not a moss. Its common name is a misnomer. Spanish moss is a member of the Bromeliaceae (bromeliad or pineapple) family and is a flowering plant that completes photosynthesis using rainfall and nutrients that it…
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