Plant labels at the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum
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Plant labels at the Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum
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Description
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In 2024, the International Botanical Congress in Madrid decided that the species epithets ‘caf(f)ra’, ‘caf(f)rorum’ and ‘caf(f)rum’, which derive from the racist slur ‘kaffir’, shall be replaced by ‘afra’, 'afrorum' and ‘afrum’ as neutral terms for ‘African’. As a result, in February 2025 the Botanic Garden Berlin replaced the first plant labels in its greenhouses.
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Place
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Botanical Museum Berlin
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Replacement of the plant label ‘Erica caffra – Glockenheide’ with the plant label ‘Erica afra var. afra – Wasser-Heide’ in the greenhouse for southern Africa in the Botanic Garden Berlin.
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Annotation on the change of the species name from ‘Erica caffra – Glockenheide’ to ‘Erica afra var. afra – Wasser-Heide’ on a specimen in the garden herbarium of the Botanic Garden Berlin.
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Plant label ‘Erica caffra – Glockenheide’.
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Replacement of the plant label ‘Harpephyllum caffrum – Kaffern-Sichelblatt’ with the plant label ‘Harpephyllum afrum – Umgwenya-Pflaume’ in the subtropical collection of the Botanic Garden Berlin.
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Annotation on the change of the species name from ‘Harpephyllum caffrum – Kaffern-Sichelblatt’ to ‘Harpephyllum afrum – Umgwenya-Pflaume’ on a specimen in the garden herbarium of the Botanic Garden Berlin
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Plant label "Harpephyllum caffrum – Kaffern-Sichelblatt"
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Rights Holder
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Nils Köster, Botanic Garden Berlin
