Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area
440 acres adjacent to the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida/IFAS
Common grape (Vitis rotundifolia) is a plant that we see very frequently at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area and elsewhere. On sunny trail edges and in disturbed areas it can grow quite zealously. All grape vines climb by tendrils and…
Tom Wilson (Class of 2017) shared this stupendous photo of a rain clouds and a rainbow at Treasure Shores Park prior to our field trip there on 7-21-2018. The early bird gets the worm (or the rainbow). Treasure Shores park…
Some people consider "common" muscadine grape vines (Vitis rotundifolia) to be weeds, especially along edges where these vines can engulf other plants as shown above where the grape vine is soon to grow atop the fruiting saw palmetto (Serenoa repens). Bullace, scuppernong,…
Insect - plant interrelationships are amazingly complex and curious, likely the result of eons of co-evolution. Galls are abnormal growths caused by mites, fungi, and insects, the product of intimate and often species-specific associations. Domatia are different. They are not…
Enjoy the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 