Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Spanish moss (Tillandsia usenoides) is not a moss. Its common name is a misnomer. Spanish moss is a member of the Bromeliaceae (bromeliad or pineapple) family and is a flowering plant that completes photosynthesis using rainfall and nutrients that it…
In 1929 Edward Bok, publisher and Pultizer-prize winning author, opened an informal woodland garden on a 298-foot high sandhill near Lake Wales to “touch the soul with its beauty and quiet” and as a bird sanctuary. Its lush live oak…
Ken Gonyo (Class of 2012) shared this photo of whisk fern (Psilotum nudum) growing at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, which was spotted by Susan Warmer (Class of 2006) on a Wednesday work day. Whisk fern is a very primitive…
Insect - plant interrelationships are amazingly complex and curious, likely the result of eons of co-evolution. Galls are abnormal growths caused by mites, fungi, and insects, the product of intimate and often species-specific associations. Domatia are different. They are not…
