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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria_luteobubalina>
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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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Wiktionary's word of the day:
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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Wikiquote quote of the day:
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>