Banksia lemanniana, the yellow lantern banksia, is a species of woody shrub of the family Proteaceae native to Western Australia. It generally grows as an open shrub or small tree up to five metres (15 ft) high with stiff serrated leaves, and unusual hanging flower clusters. Flowering occurs over summer, the greenish buds developing into oval flower spikes before turning grey and developing the characteristic large woody follicles. It occurs within and just east of the Fitzgerald River National Park on the southern coast of the state. B. lemanniana is killed by bushfire and regenerates from seed. First described by Swiss botanist Carl Meissner in 1856, it was named in honour of English botanist Charles Morgan Lemann. Unlike many Western Australian banksias, it appears to have some resistance to dieback from the soil-borne water mould Phytophthora cinnamomi, and is one of the easier Western Australian species to grow in cultivation.
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1545:
The English warship Mary Rose sank just outside Portsmouth during the Battle of the Solent; it was not rediscovered until 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Rose
1848:
The two-day Women's Rights Convention, the first women's rights and feminist convention held in the United States, opened in Seneca Falls, New York. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_Falls_Convention
1992:
A car bomb killed anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino and five policemen in Palermo, Italy, less than two months after the murder of Borsellino's friend and colleague Giovanni Falcone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Borsellino
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tall order: (originally US, idiomatic) A big job; a difficult challenge. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tall_order
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