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by viburnum 693 days ago
Plant names are changing constantly anyway so this is not a big deal, just a nice thing to do.
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We could also rename Harry Potter to Harry Clerk, to avoid the nasty racism of the producers of China Pottery.

Without asking J.K. what thinks about it of course. The opinion of the scientists that choose Erythrina caffra instead the much more acceptable "Soylent bland", does not matter anymore.

Hirsute Ceramist
> We could also rename Harry Potter to Harry Clerk

Hell yeah why not