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RAINSVILLE, Ala. (AP) â Sheriffâs officials say theyâve busted an illegal winery that was operating at a municipal sewage plant in a small north Alabama town.
The DeKalb County Sheriffâs Office said in a statement it received an anonymous tip about an alcohol operation at a municipal building in the town of Rainsville on Thursday. Investigators then uncovered whatâs described as a large illegal winery inside the Rainsville Waste Water Treatment Plant.
Photos released by investigators show glass containers, buckets, a fermenting rack and other equipment often used by people who make wine at home.
The agency says officers seized a lot of illegal alcohol, and arrests are expected. The town of about 5,100 people is 100 miles northeast of Birmingham.
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Orchids are not often called ugly, but that is how the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, London, described a new species of the normally vibrant and delicate flower discovered in the forests of Madagascar.
Gastrodia agnicellus, one of 156 plants and fungal species named by Kew scientists and their partners around the world in 2020, has been crowned the ugliest orchid in the world . The 11 mm flowers of this orchid are small, brown and rather ugly, Kew said in its list of the top 10 discoveries of the year. The orchid depends on fungi for nutrition and has no leaves or any other photosynthetic tissue.
Although assessed as a threatened species, the plants have some protection because they are located in a national park.
Among the other discoveries officially named this year were six new species of webcap toadstool mushrooms in the United Kingdom and a strange shrub encountered in southern Namibia in 2010.
Botanist Wessel Swanepoel could not place the shrub in any known genus and neither could anyone else, and so Swanepoel called Kew s molecular expert Felix Forest and his team for analysis.
Gastrodia agnicellus has been crowned the ugliest orchid in the world (Image: Reuters)
The result was that it was not just a new species, but a new genus and a new family, called Tiganophyton karasense.
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Newly discovered orchid species labelled ugliest in world
The flowers of the Gastrodia agnicellus have been described as small, brown and rather ugly by Kew scientists. PHOTO: REUTERS
PublishedDec 19, 2020, 5:00 am SGT
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