Weeping Moss

Weeping Moss is one of the recognised trade mosses, identified as Vesicularia ferriei by the Singaporean botanist B. C. Tan after being imported from China; the species is also found in southern Japan. Its submersed form carries clearly overhanging, frond-shaped shoots that bend downward like a weeping willow, which is where the name comes from. The leaves resemble those of Christmas moss, Vesicularia montagnei, but are more acute rather than acuminate. In nature it creeps over wet rocks and moist riverbanks. Flowgrow publishes no optimum temperature for it, only a tolerance of 15 to 30 °C, so this card stores the tolerance rather than inventing a narrower range; pH 5 to 7 and low to moderate light cover its needs. It is relatively undemanding once attached to wood or stone, though true weeping moss is hard to come by and many other mosses are sold under the name without the weeping habit. Splitting and cutting off daughter plants are the usual ways to propagate it.