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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet - except to officials in South Korea, who have marked 70 years of independence by renaming thousands of native flora species that referenced the country's former colonial ruler. Hereafter, the Japanese red pine will be known as the Korean red pine, and so forth. Unfortunately, the International Code of Nomenclature for Algae, Fungi and Plants is less forgiving: it dictates that scientific names cannot be changed, even if there is a whiff of cultural imperialism about them. But Latin names can be anti-imperialist, too. A new species of crayfish has been dubbed Cherax snowden after the intelligence analyst who leaked details of mass surveillance activities by the US and other governments, and who has remained in political exile ever since.