2. Indoor Air quality plays an important role in the work performance and the
health of the users.
With the passage of time the indoor levels of pollutants increases, sometimes
much higher than the outdoor levels.
To mitigate these effects a study was undertaken by IIT, TERI and
learnings from NASA that there are number of common green plants, with
which we can grow all the fresh air we need indoors to keep us healthy.
Common indoor plants may provide a valuable weapon in the fight against rising
levels of indoor air pollution & are very useful in
absorbing potentially harmful gases and cleaning the air inside modern buildings
and provide a natural way of helping combat Sick building syndrome.
3. Purposes of Interior Landscaping
Add color
Add textures
Add softness
Add life
Increase employee productivity
Decrease employee absenteeism
Add oxygen
Provide herbs for cooking, medicine, or fragrance
Add beauty and comfort by combining all of the
previously mentioned purposes
4. Adds color, texture, softness, life & oxygen to
interior plantscape.
Provides herbs for cooking, fragrance or
medicine.
Help improve indoor air quality.
Help improve productivity and performance.
Help to reduce noise.
Advantages
5. Reduced light
Reduced root system
Dependent upon people for watering
Build-up of soluble salts from fertilizer
Plugging stomata from dust on leaves
Damage from heating, air conditioning, and cleaning
chemicals
Growing medium
Only plants that will grow inside can be used
Picking or breaking leaves by people using the interior
building area
Disadvantages
6. The most common three air quality improving
plants are Areca palm, Mother-in-Laws
Tongue
and Money Plant
7. 1. Bamboo Palm - Chamaedorea Seifritzii
2. Chinese Evergreen - Aglaonema Modestum
3. English Ivy - Hedera helix
4. Gerbera Daisy - Gerbera Jamesonii
5. Janet Craig - Dracaena Janet Craig
6. Marginata - Dracaena Marginata
7. Mass cane/Corn Plant - Dracaena Massangeana
8. Mother-in-Laws Tongue - Sansevieria Laurentii
9. Pot Mum - Chrysanthemum morifolium
10. Peace Lily - Spathiphyllum
11. Warneckii - Dracaena Warneckii
All the above mentioned indoor plants can be used to improve the indoor
air quality.
The indoor plants most effective in removing Formaldehyde, Benzene and Carbon
Monoxide
from the air are: