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Also Known As long moss • vegetable horsehair • black moss • Tillandsia usneoides

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Spanish moss
Spanish moss on bald cypress trees
Osprey carrying Spanish moss for use in a nest.
Spanish moss hanging from oak trees
Summerville, S.C.
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Venus's-flytrap. Venus's-flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) one of the best known of the meat-eating plants. Carnivorous plant, Venus flytrap, Venus fly trap
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