Gardening began to be more popular during the Pandemic. Though we’re still not fully recovered from CoViD-19 and yet another illness like MonkeyPox is testing the vulnerability of the human race, we tend to battle the odds to survive. Yeah, survival of the fittest might be true. Anyways, we’re deviating from the topic people, let’s get to it. As far as this little research is concerned, we found 5 plants that can survive without sunlight. Yes, plants also have their way to survive if subjected into hostile environment. Chinese Evergreen (Aglaonema) The Chinese evergreen is the common name used for a collection of plants from the Aglaonema genus - which tend to tolerate low light conditions very well. Aglaonemas will produce flowers (these are not very showy), but they're grown primarily for the attractive leathery leaves. There are many hybrid varieties of the Chinese evergreen available which have been cultivated over the last century. This is because of their increasing

Orchidaceae, commonly called the orchid family, is a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants, with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants. The Orchidaceae have about 28,000 currently accepted species, distributed in about 763 genera. The determination of which family is larger is still under debate, because verified data on the members of such enormous families are continually in flux. Regardless, the number of orchid species is nearly equal to the number of bony fishes, more than twice the number of bird species, and about four times the number of mammal species. The family encompasses about 6–11% of all seed plants. The largest genera are Bulbophyllum (2,000 species), Epidendrum (1,500 species), Dendrobium (1,400 species) and Pleurothallis (1,000 species). It also includes Vanilla (the genus of the vanilla plant), the type genus Orchis, and many commonly cultivated plants such

As we try to come up with things to do to make our days productive this Pandemic, a lot of people are leaning towards Gardening. Here in the Philippines, people are becoming crazy with a certain plant. It has large leaves which resembles an Elephant’s ear. Badjang, as we call it here in the Philippines, scientifically called Alocasia macrorrhizos, is a species of flowering plant in the arum family that it is native to rainforests of Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and Queensland and has long been cultivated here in the Philippines, many Pacific islands, and elsewhere in the tropics. It is also famous as Giant Taro. The giant taro was originally domesticated in the Philippines, but are known from wild specimens to early Austronesians in Taiwan. From the Philippines, they spread outwards to the rest of Island Southeast Asia and eastward to Oceania where it became one of the staple crops of Pacific Islanders. They are one of the four main species of aroids (taros) cultivated by Austron

What is Burundanga? An odd name to name a person like that if you ask me ;-) I wouldn't name someone like that unless I'm not sober ;-) Well, it's been a while since I browse the net to update myself on what's goin' on. I want to write about almost anything when a Facebook post caught my attention. Burundanga! What the h*ll was that? So I went to seek help, from the net of course, and Burundanga seems to be more serious than I thought! The worse thing is, a lot of bent-soul people are trying to use it for their evil (and when I say evil it is really evil) intent. Let's get to it shall we! Burundanga is the street version of a pharmaceutical drug called Scopolamine. It's made from the extracts of plants in the nightshade family such as henbane and jimson weed. It's a deliriant, meaning it can induce symptoms of delirium such as disorientation, loss of memory, hallucinations, and stupor. According to Wiki, Scopolamine or (USAN) and also known