Interesting About Indoor Plants. Part 1

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Here is such an original selection of facts about house plants, we decided to present to you here. For example, you don't know why indoor plants are dangerous? Or what plants should be started at home so that his household is less sick? You will learn about this and much more from this information

Danger of some indoor plants

There are some houseplants, beautiful, special, but, alas, dangerous … Levkoy plant, during its flowering period, emits a strong essential oil, which, saturating the air, causes migraines and headaches that reach vomiting in those living in the apartment. Some varieties of indoor lilies, daffodils, can cause similar sensations.

If you have such houseplants growing in pots, then it is not at all necessary to abandon them, put them out of the house. You can simply ventilate the room where they are located more often. For the flowering period, they can be taken out to the balcony if it is warm there or to another room where no one sleeps.

A couple of other indoor plants also require special attention in their care. This is primrose and oleander. As long as they bloom and grow, there are no problems with them. But their juice, if you accidentally cut the leaves when leaving and transfer it to the mucous membranes, can cause irritation, a strong allergic reaction, reaching eczema.

Cacti and other plants with thorns can irritate the skin of the hands, other plants secrete milky juice when they are processed into the air, and this causes bouts of nausea, vomiting.

Confronting these kinds of problems is easy. Just avoid planting plants that could cause allergies in you or your loved ones. After treating indoor plants, wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water and wash your face.

Houseplants against viral diseases and other problems

There are favorable indoor plants that contribute to a faster recovery of households with viral infections, such as ARVI, ARI, influenza, and sometimes even help to avoid the spread of the disease in the house.

Geranium is one of the most useful plants. Not only does she do an excellent job of preventing moths in wardrobes, but her essential oils, which exude special phytoncides into the air of the apartment, fight against viruses soaring in it.

It would be completely correct to propagate geraniums in all rooms of the house, and even in a double, triple copy. And if a family member has a cold, including children, it is worth putting a pot with a flower near the patient's bed until he recovers.

I would also like to say a special "thank you" to such a useful plant as ficus. It does an excellent job of absorbing harmful substances in the air of a living room. Such as phenol, benzene and others. That is, when it is in the room, its air is significantly purified, saturated in turn with oxygen released by the leaves of the plant. However, ficus juice can cause allergies, including respiratory allergies. Therefore, you need to handle the plant and care for it carefully, it is better in the open air.

All the same geranium, as well as royal pelargonium, have the same properties as ficus. However, remember that pelargonium "works" to remove harmful substances from the air only during the day. But at night she actively … releases them. Therefore, it must either be removed from the room at night, or the vents and window must be opened wider at night.

Dangerous indoor flowers

Plants, which we list below, in their leaves, stems, sap, and other parts of the plant contain toxic substances that can somehow harm the health of the inhabitants of the house.

Among the very dangerous indoor plants are monstera, clivia, azalea, brovallia, euphorbia, hydrangea, gloriosa.

Adenium juice causes poisoning when it gets on the mucous membranes of the mouth and nose. Euphorbia causes temporary blindness when its juice enters the eyes. Gloriosa (its juice) can cause severe hair loss and negatively affect kidney function. Diphenbachia causes asthma attacks. Clivia is dangerous to children. May cause them nausea, vomiting.

Do not take unnecessary risks and do not keep such plants at home, indoors.