From this years TED conference comes news that plants can clean the air in a large office building in India….and increase people’s productivity!
One of the plants used in this study is the so-called “Mother-in-Law’s Tongue” or Sansevieria trifasciata. (see photo on right.)
This certainly is good news, although the idea that plants remove hydrocarbons, etc., from [...]
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House Plants Can “Clean” the Air Indoors (Or Is It the Microbes in the Potting Soil?)
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