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During the 1870s, the pharmacist Antonin Baudoin called attention to a black, soot-like growth on buildings near spirit maturation warehouses in the famous town of Cognac, France. The nature of the dark “cryptogamic plant” growing on walls, roof tiles, tree trunks and fences was debated by the experts: was it a fungus or a blue-green […]

C’est au cours des années 1870 que le pharmacien Antonin Baudoin signala la présence d’un organisme noirâtre ressemblant à de la suie qui se développait sur les murs des bâtiments avoisinant les chais de vieillissement de la célèbre ville de Cognac, en France. La nature de cette obscure «plante cryptogamique» croissant sur les murs, les […]

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