Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Scrub palmetto (Sabal etonia), shown above flourishing in the frequently burned scrub at Archbold Biological Station along with rusty staggerbush (Lyonia ferruginea), is a Florida endemic. It does not seem to be present at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area. Scrub…
Saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) flowers attract more than 300 species of pollinators according to Dr. Mark Deyrup of Archibold Biological Station. From saw palmetto European honeybees (Apis mellifera) produce an excellent non-granulating honey. Each inflorescence likely contains several thousand flowers…
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…
Hammock plants are the most widely used native plants for landscaping, and some of them -- like wild coffee (Psychotria nervosa) and saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) -- are quite versatile. Shiny-leaved wild coffee thrives under an oak canopy in hammock…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 