What certain plants can give off carbon monoxide?

Someone mentioned it to me, and I thought I better ask around and see if anyone knew better then me about certain plants that can be house plant or outdoor plant. Out of curiousity, anyone know about chinese plants that may or may not produce carbon monoxide, or they absorb a lot of oxygen, therefor a person requires oxygen to breathe?

Do I make sense, pls let me know and I can give you some more hints, and hope you guys can guide me in the right direction for my good friend of 10 yrs, she lives with apnea...



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What certain plants can give off carbon monoxide?
Some plants are true saprophytes and live off dead material and not requiring to use photosynthesis that takes up carbon dioxide. Indian Pipes and mushrooms comes to mind as typical of that nature. However some parasitic plants like mistletoe have chlorophyll and are also green, but they just require the moisture from its host.



I don't think there are any hospitals that remove plants at night, the amount of carbon dioxide they give off is miniscule. However if the plant is badly wilted they may remove the plant at the request of the patient.



Some studies show that plants also improve the indoor air by removing some of the pollutants like formalhyde and carbon monoxide:

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/HE356
Reply:there are no plants that give out carbon monoxide.



all plants take in carbon dioxide and take out oxygen.
Reply:If I'm remembering my biology all plants give off co2 at night and oxygen during the day. I don't know if they still do it but hospitals would take plants, flowers out of patients rooms at night for that reason. The plants are taking in oxygen and giving out co2 therefore it was better for the patients that the plants were taken out for the night.
Reply:Plants do not emit carbon monoxide.



Plants emit oxygen, which humans breathe in. Humans exhale carbon dioxide, which plants breathe in. The plants use the carbon dioxide to make sugars, which power their cells, and the leftover, oxygen, is what they emit - so the circle is completed.
Reply:sucks for you