Boletus aereus, the dark cep, is a prized edible mushroom in the family
Boletaceae. It is widely consumed in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, and
generally throughout the Mediterranean. Described as a new species in
1789 by French mycologist Pierre Bulliard, it is closely related to
several other European boletes, including B. reticulatus,
B. pinophilus, and the popular B. edulis. The fungus predominantly
grows near broad-leaved trees and shrubs in symbiosis with the roots,
enveloping them with sheaths of fungal tissue. Quercus suber, the cork
oak, is a key host. The spore-bearing mushrooms appear above ground in
summer and autumn, growing a large dark brown cap, up to 30 cm (12 in)
in diameter. Like other boletes, B. aereus releases its spores through
pores on the underside of the cap instead of gills; this surface is
whitish when young, aging to a greenish-yellow. The squat brown stalk,
up to 15 cm (6 in) tall and 10 cm (4 in) thick, is partially covered
with a raised network pattern.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus_aereus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1885:
White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, U.S., attacked Chinese
immigrants, killing at least 28 Chinese miners and causing approximately
US$150,000 in property damage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Springs_massacre>
1967:
Paddy Roy Bates proclaimed HM Fort Roughs, a former World War
II Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea off the coast of Suffolk, England,
as an independent sovereign state: the Principality of Sealand
(pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand>
1998:
A fire on Swissair Flight 111, en route from New York City to
Geneva, caused the aircraft to crash into the Atlantic Ocean, killing
all 229 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissair_Flight_111>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dernier:
(dated) Final, last.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dernier>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Free trade consists simply in letting people buy and sell as they
want to buy and sell. It is protection that requires force, for it
consists in preventing people from doing what they want to do.
Protective tariffs are as much applications of force as are blockading
squadrons, and their object is the same — to prevent trade. The
difference between the two is that blockading squadrons are a means
whereby nations seek to prevent their enemies from trading; protective
tariffs are a means whereby nations attempt to prevent their own people
from trading. What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time
of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.
--Henry George
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_George>
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