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"Mother in Law's Tongue" does well indoors, and is also supposedly good at improving indoor air quality.
by tatalegma 12y ago
"Mother in Law's Tongue" does well indoors, and is also supposedly good at improving indoor air quality.
- GFischer 12y agoSo, the 2 suggestions are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansevieria_trifasciata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansevieria_trifasciata and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spathiphyllum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spathiphyllum (are those the Peace Plants pentabular refers to?)
- mhurron 12y agoIt does well indoors, but does it do well with 100% florescent light? My guess would be no. From experience they do grow, though slowly, indoors with low natural light coming in, so if you were near a window they would be a good choice.
- whyenot 12y agoThere is more than one plant with the common name "mother-in-law's tongue." I think OP might have been referring to Dieffenbachia sp. which is a tropical rainforest understory plant and does very well in the low light conditions of an office. [It's leaves contain very large amounts of oxalic acid which is probably why it got the name -- eat the leaves and your tongue swells up and you can't talk anymore...]
- andyjohnson0 12y agoIn the UK, "Mother-in-law's Tongue" usually refers to Sansevieria trifasciata [1]. The plant being sharp and pointed, the name is presumably an un-PC reference to the archetypal "domineering mother-in-law". [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansevieria_trifasciata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansevieria_trifasciata