Corrections

Gaffe for the mint of Canada

• There is a botanical accident for the Canadian mint.

• In Canada there is a revolution, in the money sphere: they are changing the paper banknotes with plastic banknotes.

• A slim plastic but stronger twice the paper.

• A blasphemy for the proud Canadians because the five points aren’t from the native maple that, as we can see on the flag, it is three-pointed.

• In fact the one represented on the new banknote is Norwegian.

• To launch the alarm has been a botanist of Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre from New Brunswick.

• Sean Blaney has pointed out that the Norwegian maple leaf has not only more points, but it has also a more pointed profile/shape instead of the Canadian one, and the petiole is drastically shorter.

• The question could be contemplated as a botanical sharpness, except that the Norway maple is considered local because it has been imported since the 18th century.

• And the Central Bank explanations are meaningless to clarify the malevolencies, according to them the image on the new banknotes is intentionally projected for representing no one species in particular, but for being a combination of different kind/species of maples.

• For the very proud Canadians, anyway, it is an offence.