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Christmas Moss
Vesicularia montagnei
Family: Hypnaceae
Christmas Moss is named for the overlapping, triangular frond arrangement of its branches that closely resembles the silhouette of a Christmas tree — each stem droops with layered side branches in a distinctive tiered pattern. It attaches readily to hardscape and creates elegant draping textures on driftwood. It grows slightly slower than Java Moss and benefits from moderate light and CO2 for the best dense, lush growth.
Keeping this species
- co2
- Beneficial for density
- light
- Low to medium (20–80 PAR)
- placement
- Attach to hardscape; draping on driftwood or rocks
- substrate
- Not planted in substrate
- growth rate
- Slow to moderate
- propagation
- Divide and reattach
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Water it likes
- ph
- 5.5–8.0
- nitrate
- <30 ppm
- hardness
- 1–20 dGH
- temperature
- 64–82°F (18–28°C)