Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Twoleaf nightshade (Solanum diphyllum) produces lots and lots of fruits. Each dime-sized fruit ripens to be orange-yellow and contains lots of tiny, tan, flat, kidney-shaped seeds that can produce lots of seedlings ... The common name for this plant and…
Queensland umbrella tree (Schefflera actinophylla), once upon a time, seemed to be planted in every new local Florida landscape for the exotic, tropical appearance of its large, shiny palmately compound leaves. Most frequently, this easy-to-grow tree that reaches more 25'+…
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Sister storms -- Hurricane Frances (9-5-2004) and Hurricane Jeanne (9-26-2004) -- devastated the canopy at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area, shown above and below at the beginning of 2005. Volunteers worked diligently to respond to the surge in vines and…
Karen Schuster, on behalf of the volunteers trained by the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory and the Pelican Island Audubon Society, poses with Sebastian Mayor Richard Gilmour after receiving a proclamation in support of national invasive species awareness week, February 22…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 