Talk:Spanish moss

message: :At one time, some 5,000 tons of Spanish moss were harvested and used in the U.S. alone.
it contanes 2.5 of lise This sounds like nearly nothing.  Can someone come up with a comparison with tonnage from the harvest of some other decorative plant?  Tempshill 01:10, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harvest relevance 

message: Does anyone have information regarding the growth rate or life cycles of spanish moss?
KMGator 12:26, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Growth Rate 

message: Should the name Indian be changed to Native American
Soapthgr8 14:46, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Human Uses 

message: Susceptible to air pollution?  This statement seems pretty thin currently.  EPA keeps saying Houston has very poor air and the stuff thrives here.  Perhaps someone could add a link to a study or explain what they mean?  On the surface, almost all living plants and animals are "susceptible" to "pollution".  If they breath air, then they would be "susceptible" to "air pollution."  Some other phrasing might satisfy, but the current one is so general as to be valueless.--Mokru 18:52, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  I added a fact tag in the hopes someone is willing to look this up and provide some useful information on it.  Otherwise I will, or anyone can if they want, remove the statement at a later time.  Gh5046 19:30, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polution Susceptibility 

message: It would be nice if this article included some info on the origin of the name. -Freekee (talk) 17:35, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Go for it. Gh5046 (talk) 20:47, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of the name 

message: I have a holly tree in my front yard absolutely filled with this species, so I removed the part about Spanish Moss not growing in hollies.  It might need to say that it doesn't grow in some species of holly or need some other correction, but I'm not aware of any correction that could be applied other than simply removing it.  --Suttkus (talk) 17:38, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doesn't grow in hollies? 

message: Referring to 
:==Ecology==
:Spanish moss is an epiphyte (a plant that lives upon other plants; from Greek "epi"=upon "phyte"=plant), which absorbs nutrients (especially calcium) and water from the air and rainfall. Spanish moss is colloquially known as "air plant".
I am removing the description of an epiphyte.  If the user wants to know what that is, they will click the link. 
Kristopherbd (talk) 15:57, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ecology Edit 

message: Spanish moss appears to be the tempering agent for the earliest pottery in Southeaster U.S.,dating from 4.500 B.P. in St. Johns River and Savannah River. It is mentioned in the article: 
* Simpkins, D. L. & Allard, D. J. 1986 Isolation and Identification of Spanish moss fiber from a sample of Stallings and Orange series ceramics, American Antiquity 51, No. 1, 102-117
Byblios (talk) 23:40, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Important Human Use 

message: Tillandsia usneoides is not known to occur in either Delaware or Maryland.  The claim of occurrence in Delaware is unsubstantiated by any of the cited references so I have removed it entirely.  The claim for Maryland is based on an erroneous distribution map (showing its occurrence throughout Maryland!) and possibly based on historical records (there are colonial era records suggesting its occurrence in Maryland but they have never been substantiated) but more likely based on persistent rumor and hearsay.  I have edited the sentence to qualify that claim.  The northernmost documented extant population of this species is currently found in southern Cape Charles, Virginia: http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/state-regional/virginia-scientists-search-for-northernmost-realm-of-spanish-moss/article_4e584659-2f01-5b80-b6d2-dff5092305e1.html 160.111.254.17 (talk) 15:18, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maryland and Delaware 

message: I live in Florida, and you can see flags of this stuff hanging on power lines as well as on trees. Not in the sense that it was blown off, and it's not heavy enough to be thrown like tied together shoes. Doesn't seem to need to grow on an actual plant. --StarChaser Tyger (talk) 01:02, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doesn't need a plant to grow on 

message: It's notoriously a home for chiggers aka red bugs at least in Florida, and kids who want to mess with it or use it for something are advised to microwave it for quite a while to try and kill them. Often unsuccessfully. --StarChaser Tyger (talk) 01:02, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Red bugs / chiggers

message: What are Spanish Moss' temperature and especially its humidity requirements?  This question becomes more significant as tropical conditions are moving north.  And, for a thriving clump, what drop in temperature and/or humidity (for instance, for about 24 hours) would be necessary to significantly damage the colony?  Thanks. Nei1 (talk) 14:21, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Environmental Requirements?