(n)dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America, Syn.black moss, long moss, old man's beard, Tillandsia usneoides
(n)vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn, Syn.old man's beard, Clematis vitalba, traveller's joy