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                    [Title] => Ornamental shrub named after GMA
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Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is now the name of an ornamental shrub.


President Arroyo yesterday received the new mussaenda hybrid plant named after her from the University of the Philippines in simple ceremonies at Malacañang.

The shrub was presented to the President at the Palace as the song "Bulaklak" by Kuh Ledesma played at Rizal Hall.

Mrs. Arroyo accepted the hybrid mussaenda shrub from UP president Emerlinda Roman, plant breeder Dr. Teresita Lazaro of the UP Los Baños College of Agriculture and UP Chancellor Luis Rey Velasco.
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