Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
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…
Ken Gonyo (Class of 2012) shared this photo of whisk fern (Psilotum nudum) growing at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, which was spotted by Susan Warmer (Class of 2006) on a Wednesday work day. Whisk fern is a very primitive…
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…
Add royal fern (Osmunda regalis) to the rich fern flora at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. Most ferns hold their spores on the bottom of their leaves, but this genus devotes an entire frond just to its spores, pictured here.…
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