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                    [ArticleID] => 963515
                    [Title] => Hostaged by Hawaiian shirts
                    [Summary] => 

This time the champagne and Advil quit working and you’re officially sick — not seasick, shirt sick!

[DatePublished] => 2013-07-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134178 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1215075 [AuthorName] => Cecile Lopez Lilles [SectionName] => For Men [SectionUrl] => for-men [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 629548 [Title] => Hibiscus tea lowers BP in clinical trial [Summary] =>

Quaffing three cups of hibiscus tea daily for six weeks resulted in a mean 7.2-mm Hg reduction in systolic blood pressure in mildly hypertensive or prehypertensive adults in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

[DatePublished] => 2010-11-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136231 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805110 [AuthorName] => Charles C. Chante MD [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 574999 [Title] => Hibiscus in my name [Summary] =>

Pardon me for lifting my bench, but one of my happiest moments was receiving a gumamela plant bred and named after me by the University of the Philippines-Los Banos Institute of Plant Industry.

[DatePublished] => 2010-05-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 469357 [Title] => New hibiscus hybrid named after researcher [Summary] =>

MANILA, Philippines – The Institute of Plant Breeding (IPB) of the University of the Philippines-Los Baños (UPLB) has named a hybrid of Hibiscus rosasinensis (gumamela) after Dr. Solita Camara-Besa, the first Filipina to specialize in biological chemistry.

[DatePublished] => 2009-05-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804518 [AuthorName] => Ghio Ong [SectionName] => Science and Environment [SectionUrl] => science-and-environment [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 51977 [Title] => Rites set for plant named after Star founder [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2008-03-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 48236 [Title] => Hibiscus named after STAR founder [Summary] =>

The University of the Philippines Institute of Plant Breeding announced yesterday the successful cross-breeding of a new “gumamela” (hibiscus rosa-sinensis) variety which will be named in honor of the late Philippine STAR founder Betty Go-Belmonte.

[DatePublished] => 2008-03-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1650428 [AuthorName] => Perseus Echeminada [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 329753 [Title] => Hibiscus ‘Nelia T. Gonzalez’ [Summary] => Very very few individuals receive the honor of having a flower named after them. One of this rare species is Nelia T. Gonzalez, who accepted last week the request to name a new Hibiscus hybrid after her. At a lunch attended by University of the Philippines officials and alumni and respected leaders of civil society, she gladly accepted the honor, as well as the Nelia T. Gonzalez Alumni Service Award and the Nelia Teodoro-Gonzalez Professorial Chair Grants.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134209 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804859 [AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 232438 [Title] => STAR FOR ALL SEASONS [Summary] => Vilma Santos, acclaimed as moviedom’s "Star for All Seasons," has been immortalized in "another world."

It is the world of floriculture, or the art and science of growing and propagating flowers and other ornamentals.

Not long ago, a hybrid gumamela (scientific name: Hibiscus rosasinensis) was launched by the University of the Philippines-Institute of Plant Breeding (UPLB-IPB) in honor of the talented, multi-awarded actress.
[DatePublished] => 2003-12-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1723283 [AuthorName] => Rudy A. Fernandez [SectionName] => Agriculture [SectionUrl] => agriculture [URL] => ) ) )
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