As Botanists Drop a Racist Plant Name, Some Fear Scientific Confusion

As Botanists Drop a Racist Plant Name, Some Fear Scientific Confusion The International Botanical Congress voted to change a scientific name belonging to hundreds of plant species because it was ... Read More

Botanists vote to change derogatory and racist scientific plant names - NPR

There are 218 plants, 13 algae and 70 fungi whose scientific names have some variation of this word, but it’s part of their official designation (for some, since the late 1700s). Sponsor Message ... Read More

Leading botanists vote to rename hundreds of plant species with racist names - MSN

For centuries, the scientific names given to plants and other organisms have been the bedrock of biological classification. But these labels, once seen as objective, are now under scrutiny. Read More

Some plant names can be racist. Scientists are looking to rename them

There are 218 plants, 13 algae and 70 fungi whose scientific names have some variation of this word, but it’s part of their official designation (for some, since the late 1700s). Read More

Hundreds of racist plant names will change after historic vote by botanists - Nature

For the first time, researchers have voted to eliminate scientific names of organisms because they are offensive. Botanists decided that more than 200 plants, fungi and algae species names should ... Read More

Botanists vote to change racist plant names - MSN

Botanists have voted to change the name of more than 200 plants to remove a word associated with a racial slur. Following a six-day session involving more than 100 researchers, it was agreed as ... Read More

Botanists Vote to Remove Racial Slur From Hundreds of Plant Species Names - Smithsonian Magazine

In a first for taxonomy, researchers opted to change scientific names containing derivatives of the slur “caffra” to derivatives of “afr,” in reference to the plants' origins in Africa ... Read More

Many plant names are offensive: botanists will vote on whether to change them - Nature

In a ballot conducted ahead of the congress to gauge how much support there is for the hundreds of proposals, nearly 50% of voters supported changing the scientific names of plants such as ... Read More

Some plant names can be racist. Scientists are looking to rename them - OPB - Oregon Public Broadcasting

There are 218 plants, 13 algae and 70 fungi whose scientific names have some variation of this word, but it’s part of their official designation (for some, since the late 1700s). Read More

KUOW - Some plant names can be racist. Scientists are looking to rename them - KUOW Public Radio

There are 218 plants, 13 algae and 70 fungi whose scientific names have some variation of this word, but it’s part of their official designation (for some, since the late 1700s). Read More