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[Ruby Novacna]

So, apparently, it's not some lilac, but a different plant entirely. It's a thistle.

Indeed, that is what I wrote: botanists interpret the word κεανωθοσ, used by Theophrastus, as the name of a thorny plant, perhaps thistle, whereas currently this name, in Latin, designates the Californian lilac (not related to the true lilac). As American plants will inevitably lead us to other topics of discussion, I wonder if there are other plants that have received similar names.
I found, for example, that Carl von Linnaeus, in Species plantarum (1753), gave the name Ceanothus to the American, Asian (Ceylon) and African (Ethiopia) species.