Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
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"…
Strangler fig trees often, but not always, begin their life in the boots (old leafstems) of cabbage palms (Sabal palmetto). They do not literally strangle their host, but they send down substantial aerial roots and out-compete their host for nutrients,…
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…
Simpson's stopper (Myrcianthes fragrans) grows as an infrequent, small tropical tree at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA). Look in the handsome hammock areas on the both sides of Oslo Road to spot this native tree, which is characterized as…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 