Spider plant: Helps remove benzene, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, and xylene from the air. This plant takes more sunlight than most houses have available but you are rewarded with cascading green leaves.
Snake Plant: Helps remove formaldehyde from the air and loves the shade. A perfect indoor plant.
Peace Lilly: Helps remove formaldehyde, benzene, trichlorethylene, toluene, and xylene from the air. This plant needs lots of sun and has very large leaves. If placed near a window the plant will fill that window with large deep green leaves.
Catnip: For the family cat. This plant provides hours of entertainment and is lovely to look at. Yes my cat is almost constantly stoned but the plant needs some pruning to look nice. Try to leave the stems at 5-8 inches long when harvesting.
Rubber tree: Helps remove formaldehyde, trichlorethylene, and benzene from the air. This plant is very slow growing and if scratched or loses a leaf can take years to regrow. Also requires staking up.
Green Tea plant: Grows slowly indoors but adds a talking point to any tour of your home. Eventually you can harvest for your own tea and wrap fish in when cooking fish on a BBQ.
Bamboo: This plant brings luck to any home and is very easy to care for.
Dragon's Blood tree: A slow growing, red resigned plant. The prize of my household.
Lemon and orange trees: Just for fun and they produce fruit if you pollinate them by hand.
I know I don't have any photos of these plants right now but I am working on getting a camera soon.
Very good info to know! Thank you!
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