Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
The Jamaica caper (Capparis jamaicensis) at Audubon House is fruiting. When open, the brown pods are quite spectacular, revealing red seeds and an orange-red lining. Plants in the pea family, Fabacaeae have seed pods that dehisce -- split -- longitudinally.…
Joe Carroll (Class of Fall 1998) took Bob Bruce and me to Little & "Big" Prange Islands on Father's Day. Accessible only by boat and purchased for conservation in 1996 by Indian River County, these islands -- mostly real and…
At Audubon House volunteers relocated giant leather ferns (Acrostichum daeniofolium) to the low areas of the dry retention pond and replaced them with comely coonties (Zamia floridana) graciously donated by Robin Pelensky of Surlaterre Landscape Architecture. Coonties already are planted…
The flowers of Jamaica caper (Capparis jamaicensis) change color just a few hours after they emerge. New flowers are whitish but soon become a purplish-pink, as seen above on the large Jamaica caper now planted at the entryway of the…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 