Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
When we visited the south side of Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (SORCA) on 6-#-2023 to look for orchids in the oak hammock, we also ventured (despite the rising heat) into the dry pine flatwoods where we enjoyed seeing some pretty…
Florida sensitive brier (Mimosa quadrivalvis) is not your typical pea. It is thorny, very thorny. To be technically correct, it is prickly. Prickles grow from the epidermis of the plant and, as a result, can grow anywhere on a plant.…
Thigmonasty is the term for touch-induced movement in plants. Fourvalve mimosa (Mimosa quadrivalvis) is a thorny vine that grows in dry, scrubby areas at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. This diminutive but daunting vine flowers with small pink poofs about…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 