Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
The weather could not have been better for 2015 FMEL - PIAS volunteer class walk to the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area Observation Tower. Ducks, a little blue heron, a reddish egret and a bunch of blue crabs delighted the group.…
On return path of the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, a real Florida holly, dahoon holly (Ilex cassine) is full of showy red berries. Unlike some of the well-know "northern" hollies, which have glossy leaves with very visible spines, dahoon holly…
Sherry Shipley (Class of Fall 1998) coined the adage, Myrsine is green, as a mnemonic for differentiating marlberry (Ardisia escallonioides) from myrsine (Myrsine cubans). Both of these plant belong to the same plant family, Myrsinaceae (myrsine). Myrsine is pictured above…
The Wednesday invasive plant control work team -- Ken Gonyo, Diane Larue, Jean 'JJ' Romano and Susan Warmer -- was very displeased to see a tall shoebutton aridisia (Ardisia elliptica) with fruit along Oslo Road as they walked with 2015…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 