In April there was a BlueSky thread that started from one person posting plant names that sound like insults. Others replied with more, and it was so much fun I wanted to preserve it:
Plant names that sound like insults:
- spurge
- goatnuts
- giant snowflake
- caucasian wingnut
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social
Goutweed
Kate Schmidt
hairy beardtongue
brokenseed
- bladderwort
- pond scum
- sensitive plant
- dodder
Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social
- bastard toadflax
- spikenard
- pussytoes
- beggarticks
Phloem Chomsky @plumicorns.bsky.social
- Virginia creeper
Richard Waite
I've heard others over the years, but they aren't really common names. Though I admit I haven't hear anyone call a plant goatnut or Caucasian wingnut either.
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