"The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is naming a new breed of flowering plant after the late Sen. Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino...
the new variety of the yellow orchid [genus ?] will be unveiled... at the Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife Center (NAPWC) in Quezon City.... The Philippines... orchids, with 141 genera and more than a thousand species of the... family, according to the DENR... The Philippines' most well-known orchid is the waling-waling, or vandal[Euanthe] sanderiana. ... Aside from [Benigno] Aquino, orchid growers have also named plants after his widow, former President Cory Aquino, and [Phillipine] STAR founder Betty Go-Belmonte." URL : http://www.philstar.com/archives.php?&aid=20080820116&type=2&; ************** Regards, VB _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
