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A living thing you keep alive to prove you could keep a human alive.
means A plant grown indoors for decoration and company rather than food, chosen to survive in pots, low light, and human neglect.
from A plain compound of 'house' and 'plant,' both old words with no mystery to them — 'house' from the common Germanic word for dwelling, 'plant' traced back through Old English to the Latin 'planta,' meaning a sprout or cutting, related to 'plantare,' to plant or press into the ground. The combination itself is the modern part: as people moved into cities and brought greenery indoors for decoration rather than farming, English simply welded the two words together to name the practice.
- origin
- most are tropical understory plants, bred for low light
- fiddle leaf fig
- drama queen of the plant world, drops leaves to spite you
- snake plant
- photosynthesizes at night, nearly impossible to kill
- overwatering
- kills more houseplants than neglect ever does