🔴 **Many plant names are offensive: botanists will vote on whether to change them**

"_One of the proposals aims to rename an estimated 218 species whose scientific names are based on the word caffra and various derivatives — which are ethnic slurs often used against Black people in southern Africa — and to replace it with derivatives of ‘afr’ to instead recognize Africa._"

https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02337-1

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