Armillaria luteobubalina is a species of mushroom in the family Physalacriaceae. Widely distributed in southern Australia, the fungus is responsible for a disease known as Armillaria root rot, a primary cause of Eucalyptus tree death and forest dieback. It is the most pathogenic and widespread of the six Armillaria species found in Australia. The fruit bodies, which appear at the base of infected trees and other woody plants in autumn (March–April), are edible, but require cooking to remove the bitter taste. The fungus is dispersed through spores produced on gills on the underside of the caps and by growing vegetatively through the root systems of host trees. Armillaria luteobubalina was first described in 1978, after having been discovered several years earlier growing in a Eucalyptus plantation in southeastern Australia. Studies show that the spread of disease in eucalypt forests is associated with infected stumps left following logging operations.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1829:
The Metropolitan Police of Greater London, originally headquartered in Great Scotland Yard, Westminster, was founded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Police_Service
1923:
The British Mandate for Palestine came into effect, officially creating the protectorates of Palestine as a Jewish homeland under British administration and Transjordan as a separate emirate under Abdullah I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_for_Palestine_(legal_instrument)
1941:
The Holocaust: German Nazis aided by their collaborators began the Babi Yar massacre in Kiev, Ukraine, killing over 30,000 Jewish civilians in two days and thousands more in the months that followed (monument pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar
1954:
Twelve countries signed a convention establishing the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which manages the world's largest particle physics laboratory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN
2006:
Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collided in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy business jet near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil, killing 154 people, and triggering a Brazilian aviation crisis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gol_Transportes_A%C3%A9reos_Flight_1907
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abnegate: 1. To deny oneself (something), to renounce or give up (a right, power, claim, privilege or convenience). 2. To deny, to reject (something, for example a truth or a commonly-held belief). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abnegate
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And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. in --The Book of Revelation https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Book_of_Revelation