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by MattBlissett 2107 days ago
There are around a million names for plants, but due to changing scientific hypotheses, limitations of science and communication centuries ago, new technologies (DNA sequencing etc) and so on, over 600,000 of those names are synonyms for other plants.

I was going to give the synonyms for Solanum tuberosum L., the potato, but it has tens (maybe hundreds) of them. Look at the bottom of the infobox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato

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There are 359 synonyms listed in the infobox.