Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Jane Schnee (Class of 2012) led a warm but wonderful walk on 8-5-2017 at the Ansin Tract Conservation Area for Tim Glover, John Warner (Class of 2012), Diane Morgan (Class of 2012), Linda & Sam Chancellor (Class of 2010), Cindy…
Beauty (or aroma) is in the eye (or nose) of the beholder. Sweetscent (Pluchea odorata) also is commonly called saltmarsh fleabane, shrubby camphorweed, stinkweed, and cattle-tongue. This annual or short-lived perennial herbaceous plant grows throughout coastal areas of the U.S.,…
Pictured above is hottentot fern (Thelypteris interrupta), a native fern that grows along the mesic (moist) hammock loop trail at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA). Its fronds are usually 3 - 4' long and grow from an underground rhizome…
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They are not ripe yet, but they soon will be. Strawberry guava (Psidium cattlelianum) fruits supposedly taste somewhat like strawberries. Another common name, Cattley guava, honors 19th Century English horticulturalist William Cattley, as does the species name, cattleianum. The genus name, Psidium, means…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 