Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Now is the time when the sweet scent of saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) perfumes the air. This usually low-growing palm (repens means reclining) grows throughout the entire state of Florida. It is endemic to southeastern U.S. from Louisiana to North…
The sweet scent of saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) especially perfumes the evening and early morning in our yard and wherever it grows. Saw palmetto blooms from April through July. This ubiquitous palm grows throughout the entire state of Florida and…
Poachers pilfer saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) berries from natural areas in the fall. Berries begin to ripen in August. Evidence of such theft in 2014 at the south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area is shown above. One saw palmetto can produce…
Evidence of rampant and illegal saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) berry harvesting is shown above at south Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area (ORCA) in 2014. Beginning on July 17, 2018 anyone harvesting saw palmetto berries is required to have a Native Plant Harvesting…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 