Did you know that Snake Plant, aka Mother-in-Lawās Tongue, is one of the most oxygen-producing houseplants and absorbs cancer-causing toxic air pollutants such as O2, benzene, formaldehyde, xylene, and toluene?
Snake Plant (Dracaena trifasciata) Did you know that Snake Plant, aka Mother-in-Lawās Tongue, is one of the most oxygen-producing houseplants and absorbs cancer-causing toxic air pollutants such as O2, benzene, formaldehyde, xylene, and toluene? Snake Plants with botanical name Dracaena trifasciata, also known as Sansevieria trifasciata, Saint George's sword, viper's bowstring hemp, etc., has an amusing epithet called "Mother-in-Lawās Tongue" as its leaves - sharp , pointed, or severe - is comparable to the sharp tone of the mother-in- law when she retorts to her son-in- law who illtreats her daughter. Its name as "viper's bowstring hemp", is due to the reason that it is one of the sources for plant fibers used to make bowstrings. The snake Plant has tremedous positive qualties to be kept as house plants as it is one of the most oxygen-producing houseplants and absorbs cancer-causing toxic air pollutants such...
