{"id":32433,"date":"2013-01-19T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=32433"},"modified":"2013-01-19T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T13:00:07","slug":"wrong-maple-leaf-scandal-in-bank-of-canada-notes-canada-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wrong-maple-leaf-scandal-in-bank-of-canada-notes-canada-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Maple leaf scandal in Bank Of Canada notes \/ Canada News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Bank of Canada has blundered by using a Norway maple leaf instead of the country’s native variety on its new bank notes, plant experts claim.<\/h1>\n

Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre botanist Sean Blaney first highlighted the difference between the leaf on new $20, $50 and $100 and the North American sugar maple.<\/p>\n

He said: “It’s really hard to deny the image is of a Norway maple.”<\/p>\n

He said the Norway maple has more lobes – or sections – and has a more pointed outline than the sugar maple, and the lobe that rises in the centre is shorter than the sugar maple’s.<\/p>\n

The Norway maple was imported from Europe and is now also common in North America. But Mr Blaney said it should not be on the Canadian currency.<\/p>\n

“We wouldn’t think of putting a palm tree on the Canadian currency or a tiger or baboon or something that doesn’t occur in Canada as a native species and the same should go for Norway maple,” he added.<\/p>\n

Canada’s central bank said the image on the new bills was purposefully designed not to represent any specific species but rather to be a combination of various kinds.<\/p>\n

But another expert criticised the bank’s move, saying it was wrong.<\/p>\n

“I would have said immediately that it would be best to make it look more like a native maple leaf. I mean this to me is just … wrong,” said Julian Starr, a botany professor at the University of Ottawa.<\/p>\n

The bank note designers created the image with the help of a dendrologist, a botanist who specialises in trees and shrubs.<\/p>\n

The Bank of Canada had to apologise in August after news broke that it had replaced the picture of an Asian lab assistant on its new $100 bank note with a woman who looked more Caucasian.<\/p>\n\n

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