Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Golden polypody fern (Phlebodium aureum) most often is found growing in the boots of cabbage palm trees (Sabal palmetto). Like all ferns, golden polypody fern reproduces via wind-borne spores. Above check out the very beginnings of this native fern. On…
Tall cabbage palms (Sabal palmetto) form a canopy along the St. Sebastian River at the South Prong Slough where we visited on 5/15/2022. Long ago these palms shed their boots (bases of old leafstems), as all cabbage palms do as…
Common names work great for birds. Not so much for plants. Recently, the native epiphytic native fern Phlebodium aureum, which usually growing in the "boots" (old leafstems) of cabbage palms (Sabal palmetto), was labeled to be rabbit foot fern (Davalia fejeensis) in signage…
Cooler "fall" temperatures finally arrived for a 10-27-2018 group walk at the Cypress Bend Community Preserve (CBCP), a 47.25 acre property owned by Indian River County on the beautiful banks of the St. Sebastian River. Nearly all (43 acres) of…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 