Rhodotus is a genus of just one mushroom species, Rhodotus palmatus,
known as the rosy veincap or wrinkled peach. Typically found growing on
the stumps and logs of rotting hardwoods, mature specimens may usually
be identified by the pinkish color and the distinctive ridged and veined
surface of their rubbery caps, though the size, shape, and color can
vary depending on the quantity and shades of light received during
development. This uncommon species has been collected in eastern North
America, northern Africa, Europe, and Asia. Declining populations in
Europe have led to its appearance in over half of the European fungal
Red Lists of threatened species. First named Agaricus palmatus by
Bulliard in 1785, it was reclassified into several different genera
before becoming Rhodotus in 1926. The familial placement of the genus
Rhodotus within the order Agaricales has also been subject to dispute,
and the taxon has been transferred variously to the families
Amanitaceae, Entolomataceae, and Tricholomataceae. Molecular
phylogenetics analysis has helped determine that Rhodotus is most
closely related to genera in the Physalacriaceae.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodotus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1792:
After Foreign Minister Charles François Dumouriez presented
the French Legislative Assembly with a long list of grievances against
Austria, France declared war to begin the French Revolutionary Wars.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Wars>
1818:
Four days after the Court of King's Bench in England upheld a
murder suspect's right to trial by battle in Ashford v Thornton, the
plaintiff declined to fight, allowing the defendant to go free.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashford_v_Thornton>
1914:
A fire and a gun battle between the Colorado National Guard and
striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado, led to 17 deaths in the Ludlow
Massacre.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre>
1968:
Pierre Trudeau succeeded Lester B. Pearson as Prime Minister of
Canada.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Trudeau>
2010:
An explosion on Deepwater Horizon, an offshore oil rig in the
Gulf of Mexico, caused the largest accidental marine oil spill in the
history of the petroleum industry.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_explosion>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
capias:
(law) An arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified
person or persons into custody.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capias>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try
charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty,
but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven
will show us why.
--Dinah Craik
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dinah_Craik>