flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae, native to Australia. It
grows as a woody or herbaceous perennial or annual shrub up to a metre
(3 ft) tall with green or grey leafy foliage. Golden yellow or white
flower heads are produced from spring to autumn; their distinctive
feature is the papery bracts that resemble petals. The species is
widespread, growing in a variety of habitats across the country, from
rainforest margins to deserts and subalpine areas. The golden
everlasting serves as food for various larvae of lepidopterans
(butterflies and moths), and adult butterflies, hoverflies, native bees,
small beetles and grasshoppers visit the flower heads. The golden
everlasting has proven very adaptable to cultivation. It was propagated
and developed in Germany in the 1850s, and annual cultivars in a host of
colour forms from white to bronze to purple flowers became available.
Many of these are still sold in mixed seed packs. In Australia, many
cultivars are perennial shrubs, which have become popular garden plants.
Sturdier, long-stemmed forms are used commercially in the cut flower
industry.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerochrysum_bracteatum>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
630:
Muslims led by Muhammad conquered Mecca from the Quraysh.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest_of_Mecca>
1789:
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (The Old Well
pictured), one of the oldest public universities in the United States
and the only one to award degrees in the 18th century, received its
charter.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill>
1905:
In support of the December Uprising in Moscow, the Council of
Workers' Deputies of Kiev stage a mass uprising, establishing the
Shuliavka Republic in the city.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuliavka_Republic>
1962:
Convicted murderers Ronald Turpin and Arthur Lucas were the
last two persons to be executed in Canada.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Canada>
2006:
The first action in the Mexican Drug War took place as
President Felipe Calderón ordered Mexican military and Federal Police
units into the state of Michoacán.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Drug_War>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
stigmatize:
(transitive) To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with
a stigma or stigmata.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stigmatize>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion
that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. One must
not have any negative attitude to any religion but nonetheless the depth
of understanding God and the depth of applying God's commandments is
different in different religions.
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn>
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