Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Terminology matters! (The terminology has been changed since this post, which personifies why. Click here for the new & improved terms.) St. Augustine grass (Stenataphrum secundatum) - no matter what you think about its landscape use -- is not an…
Wish that I could say that Hurricane Irma damaged the invasive pest plants at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) significantly. Yes, some Brazilian pepper (Schinus terebinthifolia) is scorched by salt and wind as are exposed oaks and even mangroves. Many…
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Florida has been called the "land of flowers". Even more properly could it be called the "land of ferns". John Kunkel Small, 1931, Ferns of Florida In 2000 not long after the Herb Kale Nature Trail at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation…
Old world climbing fern (Lygodium microphyllum) makes air potato (Dioscorea bulbifera) look docile. Beware if you see a fern climbing in your yard, shown above along with air potato and cattley guava (Psidium littorale), yet another invasive pest plant. Like all…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 