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  RUBBER PLANT India rubber plant , ( Ficus elastica ), also called  India rubber tree , large tree of the family  Moraceae , once an important source of an inferior natural  rubber . It was largely replaced as a source of rubber by the unrelated  rubber tree  ( Hevea brasiliensis ) in the early 20th century. The  India  rubber  plant  is native to  Southeast Asia  and is commonly grown as an indoor pot plant elsewhere. The young plants are durable and grow well under less-than-ideal indoor conditions. The India rubber plant has large, thick, oblong  leaves  up to 30 cm (12 inches) long and figlike  fruits  in pairs along the branches. The trunk and stems exude a milky sap, or  latex . Among the  cultivated  varieties offered are ‘Decora,’ with broader and darker green leaves, and a few variegated strains, with marbled gray, cream, and white leaves or with green leaves having white or yellow m...

     Call us for Natural Demo  Air Purification                                                      Asplenium Nidus Asplenium nidus  is an  epiphytic   species  of  fern  in the  family  Aspleniaceae,  native  to tropical southeastern Asia, eastern Australia, Polynesia,  Christmas Island,  India,  and eastern Africa. It is known by the  common names   bird's-nest fern. Asplenium nidus  forms large simple  fronds  visually similar to  banana  leaves, with the fronds growing to 50–150 centimetres (20–59 in) long and 10–20 centimetres (3.9–7.9 in) broad. They are light green, often crinkled, with a black midrib, and exhibit  circinate vernation .  Spores  develop in  sori  on the underside of the fronds....

  Call us for Natural Demo  Air Purification                               Tradescantia pallida Tradescantia pallida  is an  evergreen   perennial plant  of scrambling stature. It is distinguished by elongated, pointed  leaves  - themselves glaucous green, sometimes fringed with red or purple - and bearing small, sterile three-petaled  flowers  of white, pink or purple. Plants are top-killed by moderate frosts, but will often sprout back from roots. The cultivar  T. pallida  'Purpurea' has purple leaves and pink flowers Studies •  Anthocyanins Pigments / Food Colorant : T pallida contained two major anthocyanins. The pigments may have potential as food colorants.   •  Phytoremediation / Indoor Air-Purifying Plant : VOQs (volatile organic compounds including benzene, xylene, hexane, heptane, octane, decane, trichlorethylene (TCE) and methyl...

Call us for Natural Demo  Air Purification                          Thunbergia grandiflora Thunbergia grandiflora  is a long-lived ( perennial ), vigorous,  climbing  plant that can grow up to 15 m in height when supported by a  host   tree . Younger stems are green, hairy ( pubescent ), and square in cross-section ( quadrangular ). The older  climbing  stems are quite thick when mature, and they usually turn brown in colour and become somewhat rounded in shape. The  oppositely arranged  leaves are borne on hairy stalks ( pubescent   petioles ) 4-12 cm long. These leaves are variable in shape (8-22 cm long and 3-15 cm wide) and may have broad heart-shaped ( cordate ) bases, be somewhat  triangular  in shape, or be roughly egg-shaped in outline with broad end at base ( ovate ). Their margins are also quite variable, and can range from being almost entire, to b...