the type species of the genus Panellus. A common and widely distributed
species, it is found in Asia, Australasia, Europe, and North America,
growing in groups or dense overlapping clusters on the logs, stumps, and
trunks of deciduous trees. During the development of the fruit bodies,
the mushrooms start out as tiny white knobs, which develop into fan- or
kidney-shaped caps up to 3 cm (1.2 in) broad. The caps are orange-
yellow to brownish, and attached to the decaying wood by short stubby
stalks. The fungus was first described by French mycologist Jean
Bulliard in 1783 and was given its current scientific name in 1879. It
is one of several dozen bioluminescent species of fungi. Strains from
eastern North America are typically bioluminescent, but those from
elsewhere are not. The luminescence is localized to the edges of the
gills and the junction of the gills with the stem and cap. The
luminescent glow of this and other fungi inspired the term foxfire,
coined by early settlers in eastern and southern North America. Modern
research has probed the fungus's ability to detoxify various
environmental pollutants.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panellus_stipticus>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1169:
Saladin (depicted on coin) was inaugurated as Emir of Egypt.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saladin>
1830:
The Book of Mormon, the defining sacred text of the Latter Day
Saint movement, was first published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Mormon>
1917:
First World War: Attempting to advance into Palestine, British
were defeated by Ottoman troops at the First Battle of Gaza.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Gaza>
1939:
Spanish Civil War: Nationalists began their final offensive of
the war, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_offensive_of_the_Spanish_Civil_War>
1974:
A group of peasant women in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand,
India, used their bodies to surround trees in order to prevent loggers
from felling them, giving rise to the Chipko movement.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipko_movement>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
immolate:
1. To kill as a sacrifice.
2. To destroy, especially by fire.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/immolate>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early
leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So
Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
--Robert Frost
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Frost>
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