Botanists say the image on the new $20 bills is the leaf of a Norway maple, not the familiar sugar maple that graces Canada's flag. The Bank of Canada defends the image, saying it's a "stylized ...

The Bank of Canada, which makes the banknotes, denied the bills include a Norway maple leaf. A spokesperson said the leaf is a stylized blend of different Canadian maple species.

However, the Bank of Canada, which makes bank notes, says the $20 bill does not depict a Norway maple leaf, but rather a "stylized" design. "We created an image for the bank note that represents a ...

A botanist says 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 the ...

It's a small irony that gets to a larger issue in Canada, one that goes back to the maple-leaf flag itself. When it was implemented in 1965, it came at the opposition of a number of Canadians of ...

THE maple leaf shown on Canada's new $20 bills is from a Norway maple, which is not native to Canada, several botanists have decried. Read Today's Paper Mind Games.

Canada is known for the sugar maple, emblazoned on its red-and-white flag, but the Bank of Canada has put what one careful botanist says is a foreign Norway maple leaf on its new currency.

Arborists and botanists pointed out that the Canadian $20, $50, and $100 plastic bills all bore the image of a leaf from the Norway maple (Acer platanoides), as opposed to the native sugar maple ...

The Bank of Canada blundered by using a Norwegian maple leaf instead of the country's native variety on its new banknotes, plant experts have claimed. Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre ...

Maple leaf on Canada's currency not inspired by indigenous sugar maple, but Norway maple says David Tracey CBC News · Posted: Jul 01, 2017 11:30 PM EDT | Last Updated: July 2, 2017 ...