Exsudoporus frostii, Frost's bolete, is a fungus first described in
1874. The mushrooms it produces have tubes and pores instead of gills on
the underside of their caps. E. frostii is distributed in the eastern
United States from Maine to Georgia and Arizona, and south to Mexico and
Costa Rica. It is typically found associating with hardwood trees,
especially oak. Its mushrooms can be recognized by their dark red sticky
caps, the red pores, the network-like pattern of the stem, and a
variable blue-staining reaction after tissue injury. Another
characteristic of young, moist fruit bodies is the amber-colored drops
exuded on the pore surface. Although the mushrooms are considered
edible, they are generally not recommended for consumption because of
the risk of confusion with other poisonous red-pored, blue-bruising
boletes. E. frostii may be distinguished from other superficially
similar red-capped boletes by differences in distribution, associated
tree species, bluing reaction, or morphology.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exsudoporus_frostii>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1872:
P. B. S. Pinchback took office as Governor of Louisiana, the
first African American governor of a U.S. state.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._B._S._Pinchback>
1905:
Legislation establishing state secularism in France was passed
by the Chamber of Deputies of France, triggering civil disobedience by
French Catholics.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_French_law_on_the_Separation_of_the_Churches_and_the_State>
1917:
First World War: Hussein al-Husayni, the Ottoman mayor of
Jerusalem, surrendered the city to the British.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jerusalem>
1948:
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Genocide
Convention, which defines genocide in legal terms and advises its
signatories to prevent and punish such actions.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention>
1968:
Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All
Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-
mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
hit point:
1. (chiefly role-playing games) A unit of damage, used to specify the
amount of damage a character can withstand before it is defeated.
2. (computer graphics) In ray tracing, the point in a scene at which a ray
strikes an object.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hit_point>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Godspeed, John Glenn.
--Scott Carpenter
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Scott_Carpenter>