5 Indoor Plants That Keep Your Home Cool Naturally

Plants That Keep Home Cool:  Certain plants undergo a process called transpiration, labelling them as living air conditioners. These plants absorb water through their roots and release excess moisture and vapour through their leaves. Through this botanical process, moisture evaporates into the air, absorbs surrounding heat and lowers the temperature, naturally.

5 Indoor Plants That Keep Your Home Cool Naturally

With rising temperatures across India, in scorching summer heat, when ACs also can’t do much, people tend to turn to natural ways to keep their homes cool. Therefore, here is a curated list of indoor plants that keep homes cool and aesthetically stunning.

1. Areca Palm

Areca Palm, also famous as Golden Cane Palm, Butterfly Palm, and Bamboo Palm, is one of the most popular indoor plants for keeping the place cool. The low-maintenance plant significantly makes your home decor look aesthetic and classy, giving off a tropical-inspired vibe. It not just keep your space cool, but also keeps away harmful elements in the air to some extent, and improves overall oxygen level. With minimal yet proper care and decor, the plant will add a lot of value to your home.

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2. Peace Lily

The Peace Lily is also another aesthetically pleasing, low-maintenance flowering plant. Popular in Colombia and Venezuela, peace lilies’ subtle fragrant properties and beauty will instantly beautify your homes and keep you cool. The plant releases moisture, which boosts humidity and makes the air feel cooler. They are also known as natural air purifiers, so keep your place cool and dirt-free this summer season.

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3. Lady Palm

Lady Palm, also known as the Rhapis Palm, instantly makes the place look greener and fresher. Additionally, the good-looking plant is usually of the prettiest shade of green with fan-shaped leaves and slender stems. This plant can keep your home naturally cool through transpiration, releasing moisture into the air that lowers ambient temperatures

 Lady Palm (Image Credit: Canva) 

4. Alpinia Zerumbet

Through shading walls or windows and botanical processes of transpiration, Alpinia Zerumbet keeps the space cool. This plant is widely known as Red Ginger. It is low-maintenance and grows comparatively faster under ideal conditions. Not just keeping the space cool, the red ginger plant will also add tropical flair to your home, all thanks to its lush green foliage.

 Alpinia Zerumbet (Image Credit: Canva) 

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5. Aloe Vera

The most low-maintenance and packed with additional benefits, keeping aloe vera is always a good decision. And now adding to its benefits, aloe vera is also beneficial in keeping the place cool, all thanks to its thick, water-filled leaves that release moisture and reduce dryness. This multi-purpose plant truly thrives on neglect and is beneficial in so many ways.

Aloe Vera (Image Credit: Canva) 

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Each of the above-mentioned plants not only keeps your home clean but also serves as a living decor item that adds to the beauty of your home. The plants are specifically good to keep in the house because natural cooling methods are always better than being surrounded by technology all the time for longer hours. So, be mindful and do let us know which of the above plants you will bring to your home first?