by Margo Hannah De Guzman Quadra | Oct 9, 2020 | Good Balita
Two medicinal plants commonly found in the Philippines with properties that could potentially treat novel coronavirus patients were identified by a botanist of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB). UPLB’s Dr. Lourdes B. Cardenas, a botany professor...
by Atom L. Pornel | Jan 4, 2019 | Good Travel
A new subspecies of Hoya – also known as shooting star – was discovered by Filipino scientists in Quezon Province. The new addition to the great variety of the Asian flower-bearing vine was reported by a group of botanists from Department of Science and...
by Joyce Samantha Gula | Mar 22, 2016 | Good Travel
The smallest dwarf species of Rafflesia, considered the world’s biggest flower, has been found recently on two sites on Pantabangan-Carranglan Watershed area in Nueva Ecija by a team of scientists from University of the Philippines. It was a “serendipitous” finding as...