Easily grown indoors in bright, filtered sunlight. Needs moist soil. Can be mounted on branches if moss is used at its base. This weird, but easy to grow, clumping species has silvery twisty leaves and a bulbous base. The flower stalk is red.
Spanish moss is native from the coast to the lower piedmont in South Carolina.
The slender stems hang to 20 feet or more over trees, fences and telephone wires. It can also be grown indoors in bright light. Tillandsia utriculata v . A decorative species with rather thin, grayish silver leaves in an upright rosette. The flower stalk is branched and red to orange or pink, with green.