Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
You will find lots and lots of coinvine (Dalbergia ecastaphyllum).seeds on the beach. It is hard to tell if these seabeans have come from "local" Florida plants or have been carried from other places by tropical currents arising in the…
Another native member of the pea family (Fabaceae), necklace pod (Sophora tomentosa) has seeds that float. Its yellow seeds are very small, so they rarely find their way into seabean collections. We have seen this native shrub growing in sunny…
Baybean (Canavalia rosea) is 1 of the 2 vines that grow on the font of beach dunes almost always toward the ocean. This vine grows swiftly and sometimes is said to be the inspiration for the Jack-in-the-Beanstalk story. Hence, it…
Railroad vine (Ipomoea pes-caprae subsp. brasiliensis) is 1 of 2 pioneering beach vines the grow in the front of beach dunes toward the Atlantic Ocean. This fast-growing morning glory, which can grow to be +30' long, often forms dense mats…
