Testing in sealed chambers, Wolverton found that philodendrons and golden pothos were excellent formaldehyde controllers; gerbera daisy and chrysanthemums were impressive benzene purgers; pot mums and peace lilies were highly rated for TCE removal.
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At Oyler Elementary School, in a room brightened with pothos, a charming group of second-graders reveled in gardening talk and showed off their essays about the power and the joy of planting and nurturing.
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It features a carpet of pothos and English ivy and seasonal color from a variety of plants including gingers, amaryllis, gloriosa lilies, rain lilies, king's mantle, Costa Rican skullcap and Ganges primrose.
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The first things that caught my eye were house plants _ bleached and speckled dieffenbachias, rampant tree-climbing pothos, saucer-leafed pepperomia, dracaena spires and a galaxy of calatheas in stripes, swirls and leopard spots.
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A windowless room or a dark nook can be enhanced with a permanent grouping of plants, such as Chinese evergreen, variegated snake plant ( Sansevieria ), heartleaf philodendrons and pothos, which don't mind low light.
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Plantscapers, Duval says, have come to rely on a limited repertoire of proven staples like the Chinese evergreen, the corn plant and the pothos ivy, which have all proved tough enough to survive in the big bad city.
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Historians talk about Alexander's furious pothos, his " desire . " His portrait-sculptures, his coins, reflect a kind of upward gaze as if he were staring into the very heavens, yearning for something unreachable.
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A : African violet, begonia, Christmas cactus, coleus, creeping fig, geranium, impatiens, English ivy, grape ivy, philodendron, pothos and tradescantia stem cuttings are among those that will root in a jar of water.
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In 1789, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu classified all climbing aroids as " Pothos " and all terrestrial aroids as either " Arum " or " Dracontium " in his book " Familles des Plantes ".
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A marble sculpture now identified as " Pothos " following a lost Greek 4th-century BC original by Skopas was restored as an " Apollo Citharoedus "; it is conserved in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo, Capitoline Museums, Rome.