Plants That Filter
The Air You Breathe
The magazine Garden Design had an article in early or mid 1998, entitled, "Take
Two Ivy and Call Me in the Morning." We're not going to reprint it here, because we
don't have the copyright. But it's a fascinating magazine with a fascinating article from
which we post the excerpts you see below. The article itself has far more
information.
Toxin
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Plants That Filter It Out
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| Benzene |
English ivy,
Dracaena marginata, gerbera daisy, chrysanthemum, and peace lily |
| Formaldehyde |
Spider plant,
bamboo palm, philodendron, and mother-in-law's tongue |
| Trichloroethylene |
Chrysanthemum,
gerbera daisy, peace lily, and Dracaena deremensis |
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Other botany sites
Internet Directory for Botany
Careers in Botany
(Dept. Botany U. of Toronto)
Botany
American Journal of Botany
Rivendell's Botany Page
Botany WWW
Resources
About the Department of Botany
and Microbiology
Botany and Microbiology at the University of
Oklahoma
Internet Directory for Botany
Botany 3100
Non-Flowering Plant
Families, UH Botany
Plant science, crop science, soil
science and botany journals
Internet Directory for Botany:
Mirroring System
Flowering Plant Families, UH
Botany
Botany & Microbiology
Faculty
Vascular Plant Families,
UH Botany
BOTANY 201 - TAXONOMY
OF FLOWERING PLANTS
Flowering Plant Families, UH
Botany
Flowering Plant Families,
UH Botany
xNon-Flowering Plant
Families, UH Botany
Flora of Muskoka,
ROM Botany
Botany Encyclopedia of Plants and Botanical Dictionary
Flowering Plant Families,
UH Botany
Flowering Plant Families, UH
Botany
Flowering Plant Families, UH
Botany
CSIRO Journals - Australian
Journal of Botany
Flowering Plant Families, UH
Botany
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