Bailey's Ballmoss (Tillandsia baileyi)
Bailey's ballmoss is an interesting medium-sized bromeliad native to the Lower Rio Grande Valley area in Texas and Northern Mexico that is usually found on the southern live oak or Texas ebony where it anchors itself into the tree's bark and gains nutrients from rainwater and whatever nutrients happen to land on them and their root anchor systems via wind and the weather. Like all bromeliads, these epiphytes do not harm the host tree, and are quite resistant to wind and storms. This one was one of many hundreds found in a growing in a Texas ebony (Ebenopsis ebano) in Harlingen, Texas on a warm springtime afternoon.
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Angiosperms, Bailey's ball moss, Bailey's ballmoss, Bromeliaceae, Cameron County, Commelinids, Harlingen, Monocots, Plantae, Poales, RGV, Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Thicket World Birding Center, Tillandsia, Tillandsia baileyi, Tracheophytes, air plant, airplant, ball moss, ballmoss, botany, bromeliad, epiphyte, flora, giant ball moss, giant ballmoss, gray, green, grey, reflexed airplant, silver, spring, wild
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