Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
The fruit of tallow wood (Ximena americana) is a drupe. A drupe is a thin-skinned fleshy fruit with a central stone containing the seed. Examples includes plums, cherries, and olives. Other common names for tallow wood include yellow plum, hog…
Donna Winter (Class of 2016) shared this photo of innocence (Houstonia procumbent) that she took at the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area on walk that she led on 1/4/2020 along with Gayle Lafferty (Class of 2012), Terry Greene (Class of 2019),…
Donna Winter (Class of 2016) sent this marvelous close-up of a forked bluecurls (Trichostema dichotomum) flower that we saw at the Wabasso Scrub on a 11/11/2018 early morning visit led by Jane Schnee (Class of 2010). This plant is…
Unripe fruit graced the dwarf huckleberry (Gaylussacia dumosa) when we visited Cypress Bend Community Preserve on May 5, 2018. The Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) is home to shiny blueberry (Vaccinium myrsinities) but not huckleberry. What is the difference between…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 