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House plants can be very beneficial in our homes and lives. House plants can not only purify and renew our stale indoor air, by exchanging the carbon dioxide we exhale with life sustaining oxygen, but they can also trap many of the pollutants present in our homes and offices.
Many of our most popular house plants come from tropical climates where they have adapted to low light levels, making them suitable for the lighting conditions typical in the average home. However many tropical plants also contain compounds that can have adverse reactions in people, pets and livestock. If you have any of the house plants listed below you should find out how dangerous they are, and if the risk they pose to your children or pets is worth keeping them.
These plants are wonderful specimens to have in the house and are very popular for good reason. If their toxic aspect is not a problem many of these plants are very beneficial to have in your home. These beautiful house plants provide everything from expansive foliage that can be enjoyed year round, to beautiful sprays of flowers, to cleaning the air we breathe.
The above is re-printed from the website below which gives a list of the more common house plants that present problems for our pets.
The following is a more extensive list by common and scientific names of plants by the Veterinary University of Illinois, USA.
http://www.library.illinois.edu/vex/toxic/toxiccomlist.htm Plants by common names
http://www.library.illinois.edu/vex/toxic/toxicscilist.htm Plants by scientific names
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