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Customer Views: Spanish Moss
and
The
Baby Squirrels
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What
is Spanish Moss?
Spanish moss, sometimes called
Grandfather's Graybeard or Florida
Moss, is
soft,
graceful, eerie and beautiful all at the same
time. A
romantic
symbol of the South, it is greenish silver after
a rain,  and
grayish-silver
at other times. Spanish moss can grow strands up
to 20 feet long
especially on Live Oak and Cypress tree
branches.
As an epiphyte, an
air plant that lives upon other
plants, it
absorbs
nutrients and water from
the air and rainfall. It is not a biological
parasite in the same sense
as some other epiphytes that sap nutrients from
the tree. More...
How is
it Shipped?
It is shipped alive and fairly tight in the box,
but not so compressed
that it cannot breathe. The weight listed is the
weight of the moss,
excluding packaging. The final shipping weight
is greater. Note: Moist
Spanish Moss will mold if it's not
dried out before storing. As an extra
precaution, best to remove it
from the box and
fluff it as soon as possible
after delivery.
Will
it
Grow After Shipping?
Yes. The moss that we ship is picked fresh and
will continue to grow if
the
conditions are right. Live Spanish Moss can be
grown and kept alive
with occasional misting. More on Growing
Spanish Moss...
Live
vs
Dried
Dried Spanish Moss is a bit messy and generally
used in the
interiorscape trade as a top dressing for house
plants. Fresh or Live
Spanish Moss is soft and pliable and is most
commonly used in the
floral trade for adding
texture to the base of fresh arrangements. More Uses...
The
FSM Theory
Does
Spanish Moss kill trees? We have always found it
curious that
while we do believe
that Spanish Moss does not kill trees, the volume
of Spanish Moss on a
healthy
oak tree does seem to be significantly more where
branches are dead and
a dead tree always seem to have more moss than a
live one. What then is
the cause and effect? The FSM Theory...
Medical
Uses and other Claims about Spanish Moss
None of these claims are recommended, they are
presented purely as
curious and interesting datapoints. Claims...
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