Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Cabbage palm fern (Phelbodium aureum) usually is found growing epiphytically on cabbage palms (Sabal palmetto), as pictured above at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. Its deeply pinnatifid leaf blades can grown to be from 1 to 3 feet long. Sometimes,…
Shoestring fern (Vittaria lineata) is another epiphyte that grows at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. This primitive fern with stringy foliage is found almost exclusively growing in association with "boots" -- old leafstems -- of cabbage palms (Sabal palmetto) in…
Southern needleleaf (Tillandsia setacea) is an epiphyte that lacks a "tank" as shown on the red wild pine (Tillandsia fasciculata) in the upper left but has more structure than atmospheric epiphytes like Spanish moss and ball moss. Its knitting needle like…
Ball moss (Tillandsia recurvata) is an atmospheric epiphyte that looks like balled-up Spanish moss. Both of these absolutely rootless perennial plants can be found fastened to power lines, rocks, fences, and, of course, other plants. Ball moss can be found…
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