Pothos is number one for purifying air, but spider plant won't take that lying down. Which one do you love growing most at home?

Everyone taking the college entrance exam this year will be from the post-2000 generation, and most of the post-90s generation have already entered society and are starting to become the main force buying homes. Once the new home is in hand and the renovation is done, everyone always likes to buy a few potted plants to purify the air at home.

Data online shows that the plant people love to buy most is pothos. And its sales far exceed those of other plants, leaving spider plant, peace lily and snake plant far behind. Faced with this situation, spider plant is the first to cry foul! "I'm clearly better at purifying the air, okay!"

Spider plant is known as the "air guard". It can carry out photosynthesis in faint light and can absorb more than 80% of harmful gases indoors. In other words, in a 120 sq m three-bedroom home, apart from the bathroom, spider plant can absorb the harmful gases in every other space. In addition, spider plant can also absorb harmful gases such as carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide given off by stoves, electrical appliances and plastic products. "Secondhand smoke" cannot escape spider plant's grasp either, creating a healthy living space for you.

Pothos is a little weaker when it comes to absorbing harmful gases, but absorbing 70% of indoor harmful gases is still no problem for it. In addition, pothos can wipe out harmful gases in the air such as benzene, trichloroethylene and formaldehyde in one sweep, so it absorbs a wider variety of harmful gases. As for pothos dominating the top of the home plant rankings, this editor thinks it has to do with its shape. Pothos grows creeping and twines strongly, and can be trained into shapes like a pothos wall or pothos waterfall; while spider plant, when used to decorate a home, is rather limited in the shapes it can be trained into, and this may be one big reason spider plant lags so far behind pothos!

Friends, for a newly acquired home, which plants would you choose to put in? Share your thoughts in the comments. Anyway, if I got to choose, I would be on team spider plant! What about you?