Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Some people consider "common" muscadine grape vines (Vitis rotundifolia) to be weeds, especially along edges where these vines can engulf other plants as shown above where the grape vine is soon to grow atop the fruiting saw palmetto (Serenoa repens). Bullace, scuppernong,…
Amazing to see to beautiful berries remaining on native plants scorched by the searing winds of Hurricane Irma at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA). Pictured above is beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) and slightly scorched wild coffee (Psychotria nervosa). The wild…
"Until white men with little foresight changed the situation, the plants and animals of the area were adjusted to the physical forces and formed many remarkable ecosystems, according to the descriptions by the earliest naturalists. True, there were many storms,…
The south Florida slash pines (Pinus elliottii var. densa) at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area fared well in Hurricane Irma. The needles of the pines remain bright green, un-scorched by the searing winds of Hurricane Irma that scalded the leaves…
