FREE: Live Air Plants - Florida Bromeliads

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You can't kill this one! needs no dirt, just mist once a week with water. Great for crafts.

You are bidding on one clump containing a few plants.

Hang a portion up with a wire and it will form a very cool-looking ball-shaped cluster.

Ballmoss (Tillandsia recurvata) - Ballmoss isn't a moss, but a true plant with flowers and seed. It is a member of the Bromeliad family, so it is related to the pineapple. Ballmoss is an epiphyte.

Ballmoss survives by absorbing water and nutrients from the surrounding atmosphere though its leaves and stem.

Epiphytes attach themselves with pseudo-roots that do not absorb water and/or minerals. Epiphytes "roots" mere attach the plant to the structure; they don't take anything from it.

Hardiness: USDA Zones 8 - 11. Ball moss can tolerate temperatures as low as 20 degrees F.

Propagation: In nature, the tiny seeds are blown by the wind until they land on a tree branch where they stick fast and develop root-like attachments to the bark.

Clumps of ball moss can be pulled apart to start new plants.

Easy to grow and prolific.

After flowering, the seeds will often germinate right out of the seedpod as seen in the last photo.

They flower during spring and summer.