Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
The first plant that Sam Chancellor (Class of 2010) mentioned in his wonderful presentation, A Gentle Introduction to Plant Names, on Saturday, November 4 for a group of twelve veteran volunteers was swamp fern, Blechnum serrulatum, pronounced BLECK-num ser-you-LAY-tum (or…
Paragrass (Urcochola utica) was clogging the ditch on the south side of Oslo Road near the southeastern entrance to the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, until Indian River County recently cleaned the with and mowed the right-of-way. Common names for this plant…
Common plant names are, well, common and sometimes even crazy. They are not standardized. Anyone can "assign" a common name, and often the same common name is used for different plants, especially in different regions. Somehow, Florida butterfly orchid or…
The simpsons stopper (Myrcianthes fragrans) in the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) parking lot is full of flowers -- even more flowers than when it bloomed in the spring. Tropical plants sometimes will bloom a second time, unlike temperate plants…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 