12/23/2014: Diane LaRue sent this photo of a gorgeous gopher tortoise that she and Susan Warmer saw on their regular invasive plant control Wednesday workdays, near the 'quarry' area, a depression near to Vero South Square Shopping Plaza where fill…
Category: Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
Staminate strobili
Sand pines (Pinus clausa) are monooecious: Male and female flowers are on the same plant. Flowers begin to form in early summer but do not become visible until autumn. Male flowers - staminate stobili -- of the sand pines at…
Great Galls!
Ken Gonyo sent this photo of a sweet, fresh white gall on coastalplain staggerbush (Lyonia fruticosa) at the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. This gall is caused by a fungus and turns red as it matures to be yet another…
Christmas ornament cecidology
This gorgeous gall was like a Christmas ornament on the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area scrub. This gall (or cecidia) on Faey's palafoxia (Palafoxia faeyi) was caused by a gall-making midge (Asphondylia sp.). Note the exit hole below ... A…
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