Intro: Perennial with inconspicuous flowers, growing in cascading masses in branches of trees, especially in swamps, but elsewhere where air humidity is high enough.

Stems: Stems silvery-gray, string-like, covered with gray scales.

Leaves: Leaves alternate, linear and curling, to 1½ in. long; mostly indistinguishable from stems.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Flowers solitary on short stems from leaf axils, green to yellowish-green, about 1/3 in. long, tubular but with 3 spreading, oblong-lance-shaped petals.

Fruits: Fruit a tan, 3-lobed capsule containing plumed seeds.

Comments: Not parasitic; uses trees as support and absorbs water and some nutrients from air but also photosynthesizes.

Height: to 10 ft.

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description: Perennial with inconspicuous flowers, growing in cascading masses in branches of trees, especially in swamps, but elsewhere where air humidity is high enough.

stems: Stems silvery-gray, string-like, covered with gray scales.

leaves: Leaves alternate, linear and curling, to 1½ in. long; mostly indistinguishable from stems.

inflorescence:

flowers: Flowers solitary on short stems from leaf axils, green to yellowish-green, about 1/3 in. long, tubular but with 3 spreading, oblong-lance-shaped petals.

fruits: Fruit a tan, 3-lobed capsule containing plumed seeds.

comments: Not parasitic; uses trees as support and absorbs water and some nutrients from air but also photosynthesizes.

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native range: southeastern United States & Mexico to South America