NASA found the 18 best plants for naturally filtering the air in your home

[mbonnet]

Worth noting that you need hundreds of plants in a small room for any actually useful magnitude of effect.

[maerF0x0]

Is there another tool that is more pragmatic? Like a hepa air filter device or something?

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1. Dwarf Date Palm

2. Boston Fern

3. Kimberly Queen Fern

4. Spider Plant

5. Chinese Evergreen

6. Bamboo Palm

7. Weeping Fig

8. Devil's Ivy

9. Flamingo Lily

10. Lilyturf

11. Broadleaf Lady Palm

12. Barberton Daisy

13. Cornstalk Dracena

14. English Ivy

15. Varigated Snake Plant

16. Red-Edged Dracaena

17. Peace Lily

18. Florist's Chrysanthemum

[0cf8612b2e1e]

Needs to be ordered by pet safe and hardest to kill.

[bodhi_mind]

Devils ivy, aka Pothos. I just got on a kick and bought 7 varieties. Not sure what attracted me to them but it’s nice to have some green in my life.

[boffinAudio]

I'm unsure about the Weeping Figs' inclusion in the list, although I do expect NASA has considered this - but, don't Weeping Figs contain lactose, which becomes air born when dried into a dust, and isn't anaphylactic shock a potential consequence of lactose dust inhalation?

Or is it that the impact of Weeping Figs lactose content is minimal when compared to the benefits of the plant, overall - perhaps the lactose is why it is able to filter air so well, anyway?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8603279/

[michaelbuckbee]

I've always found this more aspirational than helpful, as my back-of-the-napkin math puts the number of plants needed to make an impact on air quality at some ludicrous number.

[maerF0x0]

please share the math... or the napkin.