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Erythrina flabelliformis - MHNT. Erythrina / ˌ ɛr ɪ ˈ θ r aɪ n ə / [4] is a genus of plants in the pea family, Fabaceae.It contains about 130 species, which are distributed in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide.
Kaffir lime, a variety of lime fruit native to Indonesia also known as a makrut lime; Kaffir lily (disambiguation), one of two flowers found in southern Africa: Clivia miniata; Hesperantha coccinea; Kafir, kaffir or kaffircorn, another name for the grain sorghum; Kaffir boom (Erythrina lysistemon), a species of tree in the family Fabaceae
Kaffir is the title of a 1995 hit song by the black Johannesburg Kwaito artist Arthur Mafokate. The lyrics say, "don't call me a kaffir". The lyrics say, "don't call me a kaffir". This song is considered one of the first hits of the Kwaito genre, and is said to have set precedent for the post- apartheid generation struggle of combining dance ...
The word 'Kaffir' is highly offensive and is no longer used publicly to describe any species of plant. Alternative names have been taken up as standard. eg. Kaffir Boom is no longer used, instead Coral Tree is used. Clivia miniata plants are commonly called Clivias. Bush Lily may be used to specifically describe the original wild version.
In seventeenth-century Dutch, Hottentot was at times used to denote all black people (synonymously with Kaffir, which was at times likewise used for Cape Coloureds and Khoisans), but at least some speakers used the term Hottentot specifically for what they thought of as a race distinct from the supposedly darker-skinned people referred to as Kaffirs.
Erythrina afra, the coast coral tree or African coral tree (historically also the kaffir tree), is a tree native to southeastern Africa, ...
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African Sri Lankans, mainly the Sri Lanka Kaffirs, are a very small Ethnic group in Sri Lanka who are descendants of African mercenaries, musicians, and labourers taken to what is now Sri Lanka by Portuguese colonists during the period of Portuguese colonial rule on the island. [3]