Legendary moss Bashny.Net

Tillandsia usneevidnaya or Spanish moss is growing rapidly and its long sprouts create the effect of a lively, enigmatic screen.

In Caddo Indian Tribe is a legend associated with Spanish moss. Once met a guy and a girl, they loved each other very much and went out of his tribe, to live together. They lived happily ever after, walking along the banks of the lake, but the time has come when a woman was seriously ill and died. The man buried his beloved, but before it cut off her braids as a souvenir. Walking along the shores of the lake, he hung favorite spit on the branches of trees. Time passed and spit turned gray, but also were waving the branches of cypress, recalling the undying love between two people.