Database of Botanical Racist, Colonialist, and Ofensive Common Names
This spreadsheet compiles a database of thousands of common botanical names that express prejudices through racist names and names honoring emperors, empresses, kings, and queens who promoted and profited from the enslavement and genocide of Indigenous and African peoples. It also includes antisemitic, anti-Romani, anti-Indigenous names, and a significant number of sexist names. The database is the result of extensive research conducted for the Botannica Tirannica project by Giselle Beiguelman (since 2022).
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Check it out: Database of Scientific Racist Names
Auricularia auricula-judae
Jew's ear
Vitória Regia. Victoria amazonica. Eliane de Castro, 2019. Wikimedia.