Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
When we visited the south side of Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (SORCA) on 6-#-2023 to look for orchids in the oak hammock, we also ventured (despite the rising heat) into the dry pine flatwoods where we enjoyed seeing some pretty…
Royal fern (Osmunda regalis var. spectabilis) grows at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) in moist spots at the western end of preserve on the north side of Oslo Road and on the south side of Oslo Road. We also…
The City of Vero Beach calls itself the Hibiscus City and holds a Hibiscus Festival each spring in honor of the non-native hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis), a common and reliable landscape plant that comes in a variety of colors. Our native…
Seedlings of rosary pea (Abrus precatorius) may look innocent enough, but they can grow into a very vigorous vine, as seen in the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL) parking lot ... The leaves of this high-climbing, twining vine are alternate…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 