Despite repeated correction over the decades, some stubborn, ahistorical people cannot let go of 'Maynilad' with a 'd.' Promoting this mistake are the water concessionaire Maynilad and misguided folks in Manila City Hall. Like Quiapo, which got its name from 'kiapo,' the green water plant Pistia stratiotes, Manila also got its name from a water plant known as 'nila' (without a 'd'). Manuel Blanco's 'Flora de Filipinas' (1837) has an image of 'Ixora Manila Blanco' also known under the complicated scientific name Scyphiphora hydrophylacea.

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