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Re:Plants in offices increase happiness and productivity by tatalegma on Monday September 01, 2014 @02:12PM (#8254050)
"Mother in Law's Tongue" does well indoors, and is also supposedly good at improving indoor air quality.
Re:Plants in offices increase happiness and productivity by GFischer on Monday September 01, 2014 @03:00PM (#8254237)
So, the 2 suggestions are:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansevieria_trifasciata

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spathiphyllum

(are those the Peace Plants pentabular refers to?)

Re:Plants in offices increase happiness and productivity by mhurron on Monday September 01, 2014 @03:28PM (#8254335)
It does well indoors, but does it do well with 100% florescent light? My guess would be no.

From experience they do grow, though slowly, indoors with low natural light coming in, so if you were near a window they would be a good choice.

Re:Plants in offices increase happiness and productivity by whyenot on Monday September 01, 2014 @03:57PM (#8254446)
There is more than one plant with the common name "mother-in-law's tongue." I think OP might have been referring to Dieffenbachia sp. which is a tropical rainforest understory plant and does very well in the low light conditions of an office. [It's leaves contain very large amounts of oxalic acid which is probably why it got the name -- eat the leaves and your tongue swells up and you can't talk anymore...]
Re:Plants in offices increase happiness and productivity by andyjohnson0 on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @04:34AM (#8256374)
In the UK, "Mother-in-law's Tongue" usually refers to Sansevieria trifasciata [1]. The plant being sharp and pointed, the name is presumably an un-PC reference to the archetypal "domineering mother-in-law".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansevieria_trifasciata