About two years ago, I posted about how the U.S. put the wrong Statue of Liberty on a stamp. Now Canada has made a similar amusing blunder: putting the wrong maple leaf on the new Canadian dollar 20 bill:
The Bank of Canada has barked up the wrong maple tree with its new plastic banknotes, using a foreign Norway maple leaf as the emblem on the notes instead of the sugar maple that the country has on its national flag, an eagle-eyed Canadian botanist says.