Chlorophytum comosum (Thunb.) Jacq.
of family Asparagaceae
A common potted basket plant purifying air and with medicinal properties.
Scientific synonyms:
Anthericum comosum Thunb.
Caesia comosa (Thunb.) Spreng
Hartwegia comosa (Thunb.)
Hollia comosa (Thunb.) Heynh.
Phalangium comosum (Thunb.) Poir.
Chlorophytum brevipes Baker
Chlorophytum bukobense Engl.
Chlorophytum burchellii Baker
Chlorophytum delagoense Baker
Chlorophytum elatulum Poelln.
Spider plant from family: Asparagaceae is a common potted household basket plant: the Chlorophytum comosum. Hindi: Musli मुस्ली
“Even if you tend to neglect houseplants, you’ll have a hard time killing this resilient plant. With lots of rich foliage and tiny white flowers, the spider plant battles benzene, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide and xylene, a solvent used in the leather, rubber and printing industries.”
Having Lily like blades, just began flowering, with small greenish white flowers, prominent stamens, … common basket / potted plant. It is more famous with striped variegated leaved varieties. Less common is with jyst green leaves with hardly any petioles.
Chlorophytum comosum is also known as Airplane plant, St. Bernard’s lily, spider ivy, or Ribbon plant, is a flowering perennial herb. Very easy to grow and multiply.
“The inflorescences carry plantlets at the tips of their branches, which eventually droop and touch the soil, developing adventitious roots. The stems (scapes) of the inflorescence are called “stolons” in some sources, but this term is more correctly used for stems which do not bear flowers, and have roots at the nodes.”
The species with all-green leaves forms only a small proportion of plants sold. More common are two variegated cultivars” sold in the market.
Pawan kumar Gupta