Comments on: Quiz: What Plant?

By: Nannie Underwood

Nannie Underwood — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:56:13 +0000

Spanish moss was used all kinds of ways. Dried, it was stuffed into mattresses and pillows, made into play-dolls, used as packing material, and mixed with mud to make walls of old cabins. But it had to be dried first! Still today you can see fences and clotheslines draped with spanish moss drying. When dry, it’s black and stringy. Nice photo!

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:17:43 +0000

The last clue was the clincher….hanging from southern oak trees.

By: Mary Ann Pike

Mary Ann Pike — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:56:08 +0000

Its common name is Spanish Moss, although it is not a moss. It is actually in the Bromeliad family…doesn’t look much like a pineapple (another bromeliad) does it?

There is a plant that grows on the trees in Alaska called Old Man’s Beard that reminds me of Spanish Moss, but it’s actually a lichen.

By: Kate St. John

Kate St. John — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:47:28 +0000

Cool! Everyone was right. Maybe my hints were too easy.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:11:30 +0000

Spanish moss

By: Leah

Leah — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:50:17 +0000

I’m just throwing a shot in the dark without any research: Spanish Moss?

By: Chuck Tague

Chuck Tague — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:42:38 +0000

It’s not a moss.

Nor is it Spanish.

By: Kathy McCharen

Kathy McCharen — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:32:33 +0000

From all the clues, my guess is Spanish moss…there’s a lot of it in Tallahassee!

By: denise

denise — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:48:03 +0000

spanish moss?

By: Bill Parker

Bill Parker — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:25:11 +0000

It was used to stuff upholstered furniture.