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Category: Tree

Myrsine: Flowers & Fruitd

by exploreorcaJanuary 13, 2021

The myrsine trees near the coastal wetlands at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) were full of flowers and fruits when a small group of volunteers from the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory Volunteer Nature Stewardship program took a walk there…

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Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Tree, Wildlife plant myrsine, myrsine cubana

Holly Jolly

by exploreorcaDecember 29, 2020

Dahoon holly (Ilex cassine var. cassine) is a small tree that grows in moist, freshwater spots at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) on both the north and south side of Oslo Road. It shown below at south ORCA in…

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Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, South Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Tree dahoon holly, Ilex cassine

Wonderful white stopper

by exploreorcaApril 19, 2020

White stopper (Eugenia axillaris) trees grow in a thicket at the north Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area in the low hammock on the way to the coastal wetlands.  Stopper may refer to how thickets of these trees (and related species) "stopped"…

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Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Pollinator Plants, Tree, Wildlife plant Eugenia axillaris, white stopper

Lovely Lancewood

by exploreorcaApril 16, 2020

At the beginning of the (north) Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) trail grows a great grouping of lancewood trees (Damburneya coriacea).  They have a very vertical growth habit and can grow to be from 20 - 45' tall and usually…

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Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, Pollinator Plants, Tree, Wildlife plant Damburneya coriacea, lancewood, Ocotea coriacea, Persea borbonia, redbay

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