Best Indoor Plants For Your Health

Areca Palm

NASA's research found the Areca palm was the best at purifying air, ranking with the eighth highest formaldehyde removal rate. It is also one of the most commonly used palms in bright areas indoors. Its arching, feathery fronds feature up to one hundred leaflets each, making for quite the bold, attention-commanding plant. While a mature plant is costly, smaller tabletop plants are more reasonably priced and quite popular. Every year they add six to ten inches to their growth until reaching their height of six or seven feet at maturity.

These palms are one of the few types that can tolerate being trimmed without the plant taking serious harm, allowing them to be kept as mature plants indoors for their full ten-year lifespan. Areca palms require a little more attention with their watering, but the same time-release fertilizer as bamboo palms. Keep the soil only lightly moist in the warm months and allow it to dry a little between waterings during fall and winter.

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