Snake Plant: Different types and Health Benefits.

What Are Snake Plants?

Dracaena trifasciata, commonly known as the SNAKE PLANT, sometimes known as Mother in law’s tongue and Bowstring hemp, are part of the lily family and native to Africa i.e. rocky and dry habitats. It is one of the most tolerant decorative plants which can survive in many growing conditions with minimum care and Countless health benefits.

Types Of Snake Plants

The most common Snake plants have slender and green leaves, with horizontal streaks of grey or silver color, growing up to several feet, even in low-lit areas.

Bird’s Nest Snake Plant

The birds nest snake plant looks like a heavy-textured, open rose that grows slowly, with a dense rosette of dark green leaves with gray-green crossbands

Cylinder Snake Plant

This snake plant, also known as Sansevieria Cylindrica, has round leaves that can grow quite tall, reaching outwards, resembling a crown.

Laurentii Sansevieria

The Laurentii is also a popular snake plant, known for its green-colored center and yellow margins.

Twisted sister

The Sansevieria trifasciata “Twist” is a dwarf cultivar of Sansevieria trifasciata and only reaches about 15 inches in height. This hard-to-find plant consists of twisting variegated gold and green leaves.

White snake plant -The Sansevieria trifasciata “Bantel’s Sensation” is another unique cultivar of Sansevieria trifasciata. It boasts dark green leaves with white vertical stripes.

Rhino grass– Sansevieria pearsonii is an attractive houseplant that produces a tight clump of vertical leaves.

Sansevieria desertii-Also referred to as Elephant’s Toothpick, this plant typically has a fan-like effect.

Also read about: Zinnia flowers

Benefits of Snakes Plants

1. Snake plants help with filtering indoors, just like other succulents. The unique factor being it can convert carbon dioxide into oxygen during nighttime; this ensures healthy air during the night.
2. One of the snake plant benefits is that it helps improve indoor air quality by reducing air pollutants. Gradually, it can also help absorb cancer-causing pollutants or harmful toxins like -Carbon dioxide, Benzene, formaldehyde, Xylene, trichloroethylene, and toluene.
3. Snake Plant Is A Mental Health Booster – Small studies have shown that indoor plants play a positive role in a person’s mental health, even though further research is required. Snake plant benefits fall under horticultural therapy, which is quite popular. Many indoor plants like these can be added to a home, workplace, school, and even medical facilities for the same.
4. Snake Plant Protects Against Allergies –
5. The oxygen released through a snake plant adds moisture to the air, lessening dust and dander, which are quite common airborne allergens. This is one of the efficient snake plant benefits. This ensures that poor indoor air quality can be avoided, which causes many side effects like:
   • Irritations in the nose, eyes, and throat, 
     • dizziness, 
     • fatigue, 
     • headache,-and worsening symptoms for asthma patients.
6. Snake plant benefits can include optimizing the environment. According to Feng Shui, they can absorb negative energies of bitterness and jealousy, and placing them in a conflict-ridden environment would work.
7. Snake plant benefits can include optimizing the environment. According to Feng Shui, they can absorb negative energies of bitterness and jealousy, and placing them in a conflict-ridden environment would work.

Interesting Facts: The name, Mother-in-law’s tongue, refers to the pointed tips of the leaves, which symbolizes the sharp tongue of the Mother-in-law!

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