Noun: black moss
- 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
"black moss draped dramatically from the live oak trees";
- Spanish moss, old man's beard, long moss, Tillandsia usneoides
Type of: aerophyte, air plant, epiphyte, epiphytic plant
Part of: genus Tillandsia, Tillandsia
Encyclopedia: Black moss