Ken Gonyo (Class of 2012) shared this photo of a gopher tortoise at the Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area on the north side of Oslo Road. Dr. Jon Moore on 1/23/2016 spoke of the few gopher tortoises at the Oslo Riverfton Conservtaion Area as a “relic” population as habitat change wrought by the suppression of fire has dramatically altered the terrain.
Note the young hammock plants in the right foreground — myrsine (Myrsine cubana) and soft-leaved wild coffee (Psychotria sulzneri).
Myrsine seedlings are quite ubiquitous along hammock edges these days, including along the trail near the Boathouse at the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, shown in a photo taken on 1/19/2016 …
Soft-leaved wild coffee in far less common than shiny-leaved wild coffee (Psychotria nervosa) with its deeply veined, which is shown growing with myrsine in the photo above. Soft-leaved wild coffee tends to grow in moister and shadier places; Its leaves have a decidedly different texture/venation and appear to be almost iridescent …
Oslo Riverfront Conservation Area 