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Several dracaenas effectively filtered trichloroethylene from the air.
The Truth About Houseplants: They Don't Make Indoor Air Clean 2008
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The path which led up to the intrenchment, lay across fields of “phormium” and a grove of beautiful trees, the “kai-kateas” with persistent leaves and red berries; “dracaenas australis,” the “ti-trees” of the natives, whose crown is a graceful counterpart of the cabbage-palm, and
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Vivie left her seated in one of the long series of glass houses overlooking Brussels from a terrace, wherein are assembled many glories of the tropics: palms, dracaenas, yuccas, aloes, tree-ferns, cycads, screw-pines, and bananas: promising to be back in an hour's time.
Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892
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Spanish colonies of both continents, sangre de draco; they are dracaenas, pterocarpi, and crotons.
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* (* Plants of families entirely different are called in the Spanish colonies of both continents, sangre de draco; they are dracaenas, pterocarpi, and crotons.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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