Como se dice "merkin" en Espanol?

When traveling south, I have always been charmed by the Spanish moss lazily draped from the trees. Now, all I see when I look at a tree with tufts of moss is a merkin that got caught in a windstorm, blew off the clothesline, & traveled on the breeze until landing in the crotch of the tree.
I wasn't quick enough to catch it with my phone's camera, but there was a tree float thing in the parade that had a pflegeurkte merkin. Awesometown.
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