Producer:  Priyanka Das Editor: Sujata Singh

50 Plants to Create Natural Air Purifying Ecosystem at Your Home

Did you know apart from the factories in the industrial area, your home too is a mini gases factory?

The toilets produce subtle amounts of ammonia, kitchen stoves beam carbon monoxide while your trash bin exudes formaldehyde, your surface cleaners emit xylene while benzene is produced by detergents.

The result is poor immune system due to harmful air quality. 

Here’s a list of 50 plants that NASA recommended in its Clean Air Study. 

Areca Palm, Lady Palm, Bamboo Palm, Rubber Plant, Deacaena "Janet Craig", English Ivy, Dwarf Date Palm, Ficus "Alii", Boston Fern, Peace Lily 

Corn Plant, Golden Pothos, Kimberley Queen Fern, Pot Mum, Pot Mum flower, Gerbera Daisy, Dracaena "Warneckei", Dragon Tree, Red Emerald Philodendron, Syngonium, Dumb Cane

Parlor Palm, Pot Mum flower, Weeping Fig, Schefflera / Umbrella Plant, Wax Begonia, Lacy Tree Philodendron, Heart-Leaf Philodendron, Snake plant / Mother-in-Law's Tongue, Dumb Cane, Elephant Ear Philodendron, Norfolk Island Pine

King of Hearts, Prayer Plant, Dwarf Banana, Christmas Cactus, Easter Cactus, Oakleaf Ivy, Lily Turk, Dendrobium Orchid, Spider Plant, Chinese Evergreen

Anthurium, Croton, Poinsettia, Dwarf Azalea, Peacock Plant, Aloe Vera, Cyclamen, Urn Plant, Moth Orchid, Kalanchoe