Phytanthrope: a person who has an internal self-identification as a plant; experiencing phytanthropy. Comes from "phyto-" meaning plant and "-anthrope"meaning human. The term was created in 2013 by Darahagh (da-re-har-uh), a southern live oak. Plantkin is also an acceptable term that actually came into use earlier that phytanthrope around 2004 in a Livejournal community.
"It was a term I cobbled to together in in February 2013 for myself as a plant-identified person to use due to being tired of people saying otherkin are mythical creatures only even while plantkin being part of the otherkin community." -Darahagh
The term wereplant was being used on AHWW in the early 1990's, and a few people were reported to have identified as plants back then. In 2004 on the website Green Is More Than A Color the term "greenkin" was also used. In 2006 the term "woodkin" was coined on another Livejournal community, unfortunately this profile has been purged.
References
http://therian.wikia.com/wiki/Phytanthrope
Darahagh, House of Chimeras, "Kin to the Plants: Of People Who Identify As Plants", 05 April 2013. http://houseofchimeras.livejournal.com/128446.html
"A History of Plant-Identified People in the Otherkin Communities"- http://houseofchimeras.weebly.com/a-history-of-plant-identified-people-in-the-otherkin-communities.html
"What Being A Phytanthrope is To Me"- http://houseofchimeras.weebly.com/what-being-a-phytanthrope-is-to-me.html
Darahagh, "Plantkin/Phytanthrope" June 2, 2018, http://liongoatsnake.tumblr.com/post/174495825925/plantkinphytanthrope
Plant / Green 'Kin. August 4th 2004, [accessed June 2 2018]. https://plant-otherkin.livejournal.com/profile
Phytanthropy, April 23, 2014, http://liongoatsnake.tumblr.com/post/83649310749/phytanthropy
"Stupid Question," alt.horror.werewolves, February 20, 1995, [accessed June 2, 2018]. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.horror.werewolves/ZEDpEzhCDjA/jEAFj-yq1EUJ
"Green is more than a color?," Qilora.com, [accessed June 2 2018]. http://web.archive.org/web/20060207123401/http://greenkin.qilora.com/
Woodkin, June 15 2006, [accessed June 2 2018]. https://woodkin.livejournal.com/profile
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