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| | Spanish Moss: Its Nature, History and Uses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Tillandsia usneoides is not a true moss and is unrelated to the plants of the class Musci (or Bryopsida), to which the genus Sphagnum (mosses that form peat) belongs. |
 | | Spanish Moss is not a parasite (mistletoe, on the other hand, is not an epiphyte, but a true parasite that draws nutrients from its host tree). |
 | | The moss "bark" that had been stripped from the horsehair-like threads was sold as mulch, and even the tree bark, twigs, leaves, soil and defective moss filaments removed from cured moss went for sale as mulching material. |
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