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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 |
Plants That Filter It Out |
| 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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