Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
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…
Tropical plants tend to have far less allegiance to the "Seasons" than temperate plants. The Simpson's stopper (Myrcianthes fragrans) was flush with fragrant flowers when we visited the South Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) on 6-11-2023 looking for Florida butterfly…
Laurel greenbrier (Smilax laurifolia) also is called bamboo vine. One of three species of greenbrier vines in Indian River County and at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, laurel greenbrier is found in moister locations, including areas that experience extended periods…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 