A hiker in an Oregon forest wrote to the People's Pharmacy about the use of the juice of crushed bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) to ease the itch of ant and mosquito bites. The People's Pharmacy referenced the use…
Itch Remedy ?
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Sweet scent of snowberry
Snowberry (Chiococca alba) fragranced the moist air when volunteers Jean 'JJ' Romano & Susan Warmer took me on a walk at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area on the morning of 7/30/2014. Just a bit to the east of the DOT…
Peas for Partridges in Florida ?
Pictured above is the seed pod of partridge pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata). The common name reportedly derives from the biological confusion of the early European settlers, who were unfamiliar with quail and thought them to be partridge. Gamebirds and songbirds eat…
Apples from Ponds
When we were working to control the evil air potato at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, volunteer Ken Gonyo (Class of 2013) asked about the green apple-like fruit adjacent to the entrance to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory (FMEL). Pictured…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 