I grow those! Now I have no idea what the PC name for them is. (Which is weird because the Wandering Jew is basically mythology, nothing against Jews.)
Various types of plants are called by the common name "wandering Jew", apparently because of these plants' ability to resist gardener's attempt to prevent them from "wandering over the earth until the second coming of Christ" (see Wandering Jew (disambiguation) ยง Plants). In 2016, to avoid anti-Semitism, the name "wandering dude" to describe Tradescantia has been proposed in an online plant community by Pedram Navid, instead of "Wandering Jew" and "silver inch plant".[83] [84][85][86]
31 Comments
Cheeseweed@sh.itjust.works · 45 pts · 297d
I take exception to this.
Manjushri@piefed.social · 31 pts · 297d
This would be funnier if you hadn't created the account just to post this.
Albbi@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 297d
Just wait for the repost!
Cheeseweed@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 297d
I always play the long game.
moody@lemmings.world · 18 pts · 297d
I feel like Mother of Thousands is maybe not the best name for a baby.
blarghly@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 297d
Well I guess you don't expect your kids to be high achievers...
moody@lemmings.world · 9 pts · 297d
I think that's a title one earns, not one that should be given from birth.
groet@feddit.org · 2 pts · 297d
So are dragonhunter and hellbender ... and screaming armadillo
Drusas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 297d
How about the classic Wandering Jew?
shalafi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 297d
I grow those! Now I have no idea what the PC name for them is. (Which is weird because the Wandering Jew is basically mythology, nothing against Jews.)
Drusas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 297d
The name has, for good reasons, fallen out of fashion. "Inch plant" is what I've heard recently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_Jew
shalafi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 297d
Shub-Niggurath, The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young, get my vote.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 297d
Yeah that's a title reserved for animal shelter's owner.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 298d
My baby will be called Compressed Flapworth and no woke liberal snowflake will stop me!
vrek@programming.dev · 4 pts · 298d
Do you want to bring them over to have a play date with my sweet virgins creeper?
PineRune@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 298d
Cheeseweed would probably be the coolest kid in school, ngl.
BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 297d
Don't know why they mock my little Cheeseweed Jr.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 297d
I was just thinking that it sounds like an insult.
"Of course it was loaded you cheeseweed!"
glorkon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 297d
Sarcastic Fringehead and Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker, go clean your rooms! And stop teasing your little sister Common Cockchafer.
TomMasz@piefed.social · 6 pts · 297d
There really is a screaming hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus vellerosus). The name comes from its squealing when you pick it up.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 297d
That name seems a little weirder in context.
It's like calling a species of wild pig the "Bleeding Black Hog" because of how it reacts to being shot.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 297d
There is that meme floating around about a salmon learning that named a color after them. I'm sure there are a ton of other examples.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 297d
Great, you've made my son cry. Now I'll have to make pancakes in the morning for Tufted Titmouse.
radix@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 297d
He just needs a hug from his mother, Great Tit.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 297d
glimse@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 297d
Good enough for a poke
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 297d
Ima go with Cawwwwww
dxdydz@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 297d
Cheeseweed Flapwort sounds like a hobbit name
tatann@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 297d
Honestly, Hellbender is badass
Bender would be too
Or even Hell
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 297d
Greatest: Boa, A Lizard Bird, Mealybug Destroyer, Raven.
Steve@startrek.website · 1 pts · 297d
Hawk, Badger
Drusas@fedia.io · 1 pts · 297d
I'm sorry, but "Lavender" is not a good name.