In your garden, you can propagate it from division by separating side shoots and plantlets. Most often it is propagated naturally when the tiny pieces of its stems and plantlets spread during rainy or windy weather. Like other air plants, it gets water and nutrients from particles in the air. In its natural habitat, it colonized not only on trees but also hangs on power lines, wires or stones. Spanish moss shoots, depending on the form can have different thicknesses are several meters long.

Epiphytes (air plants) are those that sit or grow on other plants, but they do not use the energy of host plant or feed on them. It is native in North, Central and South America and belongs to the family of Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae), the family of pineapples.

Spanish moss ( Tillandsia usneoides) is not a moss but a flowering plant that grows over trees, however, it doesn’t leach nutrients from them. Learn how to grow Spanish moss, growing Spanish moss demands care and a few requirements that need to be fulfilled.Ĭommon Names: Spanish moss, Tree Hair, Old Man’s Beard, Kali’s Hair, Spanish Beard How does Spanish Moss Grow?

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