Talk:vulture-berry

RFV discussion: October 2022–February 2023
Yet another brainless assembly-line entry by yet another sock. They apparently copied the vernacular names and the definition from Wikipedia's article on. The main name in Google Books is Hottentot cherry (Wikipedia's spelling, "Hottentot's cherry" is much rarer), which no one wants to use anymore because Hottentot is a name notoriously employed by racists for the Khoi people of South Africa. The updated name is Khoi cherry, which seems to be almost entirely Wikipedia-derived mentions. There really isn't a good English vernacular name for this species, except perhaps bittersweet-cherry, though that isn't exactly widely used either.

This particular name is the literal translation of the Afrikaans name, which you can tell because almost every reference in Google Books is a mention that says so. Chuck Entz (talk) 01:46, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

RFV Failed, mention only. Ioaxxere (talk) 02:53, 14 February 2023 (UTC)