Plant Tip: Bring the Fresh Air Indoors
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- Published on Tuesday, July 15 2014 07:34
- Written by BCG Editors
There are a few container plants you can grow indoors that will filter and clean the air you breathe. A NASA study discovered that a lot of easy-to-grow indoor plants are actually beneficial for our health. For example, lady palms remove ammonia, peace lilies absorb benzene and acetone, and pothos removes benzene carbon monoxide. And English ivy and Boston ferns remove formaldehyde from the air. This may be hard to believe, but that same stuff used to preserve the frogs you dissected in high school is also prevalent in a lot of our furniture and housing materials, as well as car exhaust. Yuck!
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