Almost everyone knows spider plants. They are one of the very first plants most beginners try. They are so popular because they are easy to grow, have very few problems, and have those fascinating baby spiders dangling overboard as if they were letting themselves down on a web.
Many people never notice that the little plantlets begin as small white flowers.
Spider plants are botanically known as Chlorophytum comosum , and from studies done by NASA, we know that they are very good at taking pollutants out of indoor air and adding oxygen. They come in plain green and two types of variegation, green with white margins and green with a white central stripe. At the Como Conservatory they are used as a ground cover under many of the tropical plants. This is the way they grow in their natural habitat which is moist woodlands on every continent except North America and Europe. They are vigorous and usually free of problems, but they do have one requirement that you should know about.