Heart of the Swamp

Heart of the Swamp
Woodduck box at center

Friday, December 29, 2006

First Northeast Florida Great Air Potato Round-up

The Duval Audubon Society is sponsoring a clean up site at the Crosby Sanctuary. Please go to http://www.nature.org/florida or call (904) 598-0004 to pre-register for this worthy event. It is necessary to pre-register to guarantee sufficient supplies and prizes. Prizes will be handed out for the largest potatoes collected! Great fun and educational opportunity for kids and the whole family!

Air potato is an exotic vine from Asia that is considered one of Floridas worst invaders of native plant communities. These vines creep over every other plant and smother them out, similar to Kudzu in Georgia and North Carolina. It reproduces by dropping numerous bulbils, which look much like brown potatoes. For more info and pictures please see the previous post on this blog entitled Air Potato.

When: January 20, 2007
Time: 9 am to 12:30 pm
Where: Crosby Sanctuary or other sponsored sites
Meeting Place: Vystar Credit Union parking lot on NW corner of Blanding Blvd and Aurora Blvd in Orange Park (just south of Wells Road/Orange Park Mall)
Contact: Pete Johnson (904) 536-4806

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