Small Ballmoss

on rock face, roadcut in volcanic rhyolite tuff at upper canyon rim. This site on the old gravel switchback road has now been destroyed by a new paved highway to Batopilas that also greatly limits access to many former rich roadside collecting sites in the canyon.

on Organ Pipe Cactus exposed tops of terraced western foothills

epiphyte dependent on Pacific fog growing on arborescent cactus and trees exposed atop west facing foothills

on arborescent Opuntia

hosted on Quercus chihuahuensis. Tree on hillside on upper canyon rim of exposed volcanic tuff

on Zanthoxylum fagara. In elevated brush covered coastal hummock of silty clayish loam along shoreline of brackish Oso Creek, in a minimally disturbed natural area of native vegetation

on Condalia warnockii in drainage along fence line on gypsum mineralized silty clay of bolson playa. Thanks to George Hinton for guiding us to this rich site.

on Condalia warnockii in drainage along fence line on gypsum mineralized silty clay of bolson playa. Thanks to George Hinton for guiding us to this rich site.

on Condalia warnockii in drainage along fence line on gypsum mineralized silty clay of bolson playa. Thanks to George Hinton for guiding us to this rich site.

on Condalia warnockii in drainage along fence line on gypsum mineralized silty clay of bolson playa. Thanks to George Hinton for guiding us to this rich site.

Summary[edit] Description: English: Tillandsia recurvata. Date: 3 May 2020, 11:31:02. Source: Own work. Author: Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata. Tillandsia recurvata in Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico. Licensing[edit] : This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. :. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 CC BY-SA 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 truetrue.

Summary[edit] Description: Español: Heno (Tillandsia recurvata) creciendo sobre las ramas de los árboles. Fotografía tomada en la comunidad de El Álamo (Dolores Hidalgo, Guanajuato), México. Date: 30 January 2021, 15:55:05. Source: Own work. Author: Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata. Camera location21° 14′ 24.04″ N, 100° 43′ 19.03″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 21.240011; -100.721953.

Summary[edit] Description: Ball moss Tillandsia recurvata in a Trumpet Tree Tabebuia rosea. Date: 19 March 2006, 02:03. Source: arbol_1.2. Author: Drowne from Puerto Rico.

Bromelia (Tillandsia recurvata), Bosque seco tropical de Guánica, Puerto Rico

Summary[edit] Description: Tillandsia recurvata (Linnaeus, 1762) - ball moss in Florida, USA. (December 2012) Plants are multicellular, photosynthesizing eucaryotes. Most species occupy terrestrial environments, but they also occur in freshwater and saltwater aquatic environments. The oldest known land plants in the fossil record are Ordovician to Silurian. Land plant body fossils are known in Silurian sedimentary rocks - they are small and simple plants (e.g., Cooksonia). Fossil root traces in paleosol horizons are known in the Ordovician. During the Devonian, the first trees and forests appeared. Earth's initial forestation event occurred during the Middle to Late Paleozoic. Earth's continents have been partly to mostly covered with forests ever since the Late Devonian. Occasional mass extinction events temporarily removed much of Earth's plant ecosystems - this occurred at the Permian-Triassic boundary (251 million years ago) and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (65 million years ago). The most conspicuous group of living plants is the angiosperms, the flowering plants. They first unambiguously appeared in the fossil record during the Cretaceous. They quickly dominated Earth's terrestrial ecosystems, and have dominated ever since. This domination was due to the evolutionary success of flowers, which are structures that greatly aid angiosperm reproduction. Tillandsia recurvata, the ball moss, is an ephiphyte - a plant that is not rooted in the ground and instead is attached to a host plant - usually a tree. The ball moss is not parasitic on its host - it engages in photosynthesis. Classification: Plantae, Angiospermophyta, Poales, Bromeliaceae Locality: Gulfside Park Preserve, Sanibel Island, southwestern Florida, USA More info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillandsia_recurvata. Date: 15 December 2012, 13:59. Source: Tillandsia recurvata (ball moss) (Sanibel Island, Florida, USA) 3. Author: James St. John.

www.austintexas.gov/blog/ball-moss-just-hanging-out

Summary[edit] Description: English: Tillandsia recurvata growing on home front, Mexico. Date: 30 June 2020, 11:55:45. Source: Own work. Author: Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata.

Summary[edit] Description: English: Tillandsia recurvata growing as a harmless epiphyte on Ekebergia in South Africa. Like other species in this genus it is an epiphytic "air plant" but commonly is mistaken for a pernicious parasite that eventually would kill the tree. It is not parasitic nor are its attachment roots significantly harmful to its host. In fact, it commonly grows on wire fences etc, which a parasite could not do. This tree also is infested with foliose lichen that might be harmful, but that has nothing to do with the Tillandsia. Date: 5 July 2019, 14:01:14. Source: Own work. Author: JonRichfield. Camera location34° 02′ 45.6″ S, 18° 48′ 50.4″ E View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap-34.046000; 18.814000. The Tillandsia is native to Southern USA and central American countries. It certainly was deliberately imported, but is unlikely to prove a serious invader. Licensing[edit] : This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. :. You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 CC BY-SA 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 truetrue.

Summary[edit] Description: Tillandsia recurvata (Linnaeus, 1762) - ball moss in Florida, USA. (December 2012) Plants are multicellular, photosynthesizing eucaryotes. Most species occupy terrestrial environments, but they also occur in freshwater and saltwater aquatic environments. The oldest known land plants in the fossil record are Ordovician to Silurian. Land plant body fossils are known in Silurian sedimentary rocks - they are small and simple plants (e.g., Cooksonia). Fossil root traces in paleosol horizons are known in the Ordovician. During the Devonian, the first trees and forests appeared. Earth's initial forestation event occurred during the Middle to Late Paleozoic. Earth's continents have been partly to mostly covered with forests ever since the Late Devonian. Occasional mass extinction events temporarily removed much of Earth's plant ecosystems - this occurred at the Permian-Triassic boundary (251 million years ago) and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (65 million years ago). The most conspicuous group of living plants is the angiosperms, the flowering plants. They first unambiguously appeared in the fossil record during the Cretaceous. They quickly dominated Earth's terrestrial ecosystems, and have dominated ever since. This domination was due to the evolutionary success of flowers, which are structures that greatly aid angiosperm reproduction. Tillandsia recurvata, the ball moss, is an ephiphyte - a plant that is not rooted in the ground and instead is attached to a host plant - usually a tree. The ball moss is not parasitic on its host - it engages in photosynthesis. Classification: Plantae, Angiospermophyta, Poales, Bromeliaceae Locality: Gulfside Park Preserve, Sanibel Island, southwestern Florida, USA More info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillandsia_recurvata. Date: 15 December 2012, 13:59. Source: Tillandsia recurvata (ball moss) (Sanibel Island, Florida, USA) 2. Author: James St. John.