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• n  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

• Spanish moss
• old man's beard
• long moss
• Tillandsia usneoides

News & Articles

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• MasterChef Christine Ha’s Recap: A Bloody Glee-ful Battle
  The remaining 15 MasterChef contestants get what I call a true mystery box. It's full of strange international ingredients, including salt-cured tuna from Spain; Okinawan sweet potato; elk flank from northern Europe; Russian cod liver; rambutan from southeast Asia; and Chinese black moss.
  June 20, 2013 - TV Guide