Plants that Help Reduce Room Temperatures

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

From: http://www.greensomethings.typepad.com/

Finally, am able to get myself to back to my blog. Facebook (FB) predominance and slightly poor time management threw me off track (off blogging!)

Many story requests are pending, and I promise I will deliver, very very soon but here's something, that infact is a request too. A friend on FB wanted to learn about plants that help reduce room temperatures. So as promised here is the information I have to share with y'all!

Some of the most commonly available plants (at least in India, and especially in New Delhi) can be very useful to reduce temperatures inside your homes and offices. These plants are known to be very effective in removing environmental contaminants like alcohol, Acetone, Benzene, and Formaldehyde from the air around us. Scientists have found that many indoor plants reduce volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, by up to 100 percent over 24 hours in a closed environment. VOCs include compounds such as benzene and hexane, and are known to be highly toxic to humans leading to asthma, liver cancer and other serious ailments. VOCs are present at low levels in many indoor environments. Some, like Benzene, make their way inside buildings through pollution from traffic outside. Others are present as a result of their use in paints, carpeting, and furniture fabric, especially in new homes or buildings. Paper products have Formaldehyde which is carcinogenic and can affect the liver seriously.

Some of the easily available plants can help reduce the risk of air pollution, thereby reducing room temperatures as well:

Arrowhead Syngonium - Has upwards growing stems with arrow shaped leaves. Though the surface of the plant is dark green, it will have either while, silver or pink markings on the surface of the leaf. We have some beautiful Pink leaved Syngoniums which will grow about 1-2ft and can be easily potted and kept indoors. Here are a few images - check out how beautiful this common houseplant can be made to look if potted and positioned smartly.

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