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Can plants improve indoor air?
What is in the book?
Chapter: Improve indoor air quality
Improve ventilation
Natural air exchange
Mechanical devices
Moisture control
Reduce moisture
Flood cleanup
Can plants improve indoor air?
Best performers
Room by room advice
NASA scientists found a very simple and effective way of treating and recycling air and water: plants.
This in itself is not an astonishing scientific breakthrough, because we all know that plants are the lungs of Mother Earth.
Astonishing, however, was the discovery that plants can remove many of the more than 300 chemicals found in the air of a spacecraft.
Plants that remove chemical vapours from indoor air.
Best performers.
Bamboo Palm (Chamaedorea seifrizii)
Boston Fern (Nephrolepis exaltata "Bostoniensis")
Dwarf Date Palm (Phoenix roebelenii)
English Ivy (Hedera helix)
Florist's Mum (Chrysanthemum morifolium)
Gerbera (Gerbera jamesonii)
Kimberley Queen (Nephrolepis obliterata)
Rubber Plant (Ficus robusta)
Areca Palm (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens)
Corn/Happy plant (Dracaena fragrans "Massangeana")
Dracaena "Janet Craig" (Dracaena deremensis "Janet Craig")
Schefflera/Umbrella Tree (Brassaia actinophylla)
Peace/Madonna Lily (Spathiphyllum sp.)
Weeping Fig (Ficus benjamina)
Dendrobium Orchid (Dendrobium sp.)
Dumb Cane (Dieffenbachia "Exotica compacta")
Ficus Alii (Ficus macleilandii "Alii")
King of hearts (Homalomena wallisii)
Lady palm (Rhapis excelsa)
Lily turf (Liriope spicata)
Source: Dr. B. C. Wolverton, Eco-friendly house plants, 1996