Field Notes – Ft DeSoto Park – 9/29/12
11:50 AM – Base of Fort
Conditions: warm/hot, breezy
Gemnosperm – seed producing non-flower
Sabel/Cabbage Palm – bat habitats, berries, stalk smooth, pinate structure, continues w/ blades
Strangler fig – ficus family, simple, pinate leaves,
Epiphyte – no roots in ground yet,
Fruit eaten by squirrels/bats berry droppings in trees, regrows, milky, white sap, once rooted,
kills tree (30 yrs)
FT – Black-Eyed Susan yellow flowers, rough leaves, black/brown middle (149)
Sand spurs – green/purple, sharp burs, painful
Golden Aster – yellow flowers, fuzzy stem, dandelion-like burs
Prickly Pear Cactus – completely edible
NN – Brazillian Pepper – red berries, invasive, pinate leaves, odor=turpentine, honey producing
Beach Morning Glory – white flower, yellow middle (172)
Seots – high salinity tolerance, near beaches, signs of good beach, fined if pulled
Dragonfly order – ordinada
Morning glory vines
Sea grapes – big, round leaves, red veins, fruit in summer, edible grapes (bitter)
On Arrowhead Trail –
Lichen – fungus/algae
Red Cedar
Sabel Palm
Saw Palmaetto – spiky/rigid/prickly/toothed stalk, pulmate, low to ground – 8’-10’
Beauty Berry – soft/furry leaves, soapy berries
Poison Ivy – three leaves, worse through time, dogs immune, 1 TBS could affect planet, low
salinity tolerance
