Banksia paludosa (swamp banksia) is a shrub endemic to New South Wales,
found between Sydney and Batemans Bay and in Eden. Two subspecies are
recognised: a spreading shrub to 1.5 m (5 ft) in height, and a
subspecies astrolux, up to 5 m (16 ft) high and found only in Nattai
National Park. Native mammals, such as the brown antechinus and sugar
glider, are important pollinators of B. paludosa. Several species of
honeyeaters visit the flower spikes, as do ants and the European
honeybee. The response to bushfire depends on the subspecies; subspecies
paludosa regenerates from underground lignotubers, while plants of
subspecies astrolux are killed by fire and regenerate from large stores
of seed which have been held in cones in the plant canopy. B. paludosa
is sometimes seen in cultivation, with dwarf forms being registered and
sold.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia_paludosa>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1400:
The body of the deposed king Richard II was put on display in
London's Old St Paul's Cathedral, after his death in Pontefract Castle.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_II_of_England>
1600:
Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, best-known as a proponent
of heliocentrism and the infinity of the universe, was burned at the
stake as a heretic by the Roman Inquisition.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno>
1913:
In the U.S. National Guard's 69th Regiment Armory in New York
City, the Armory Show opened, introducing Americans to avant-garde and
modern art.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armory_Show>
1949:
Chaim Weizmann began his term as the first President of Israel.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Weizmann>
2011:
Bahrain security forces launched a pre-dawn raid on protesters
in Pearl Roundabout in Manama, killing four of them.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahrain_Bloody_Thursday>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
bebother:
To bring trouble upon.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bebother>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our philosophy... reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a
single end, and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one
primal foundation both of origin and of end. From this coincidence of
contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that
contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to
compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.
--Giordano Bruno
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno>