The growth test of different ornamental plants in the sewage urban riverway

Authors WANG Shoubing; RUAN Xiaofeng; HU Huan; WANG Xiangrong; FAN Zhengqiu

Journal China Environmental Science , 2007,2:27

Abstract For screening out the ornamental plants which could grow in the urban super eutrophic riverway sewage (USERS), the growth circumstances of 21 kinds of ornamental plants such as Aglaonema commutatum cv. Sanpema cultivated in USERS samples from Shanghai were studied. 10 kinds of plants such as Aglaonema comutatum cv. Sanpema, Epipremnum pinnatum, Peperomia tetraphyllum etc. were not adaptable to grow in the urban riverway sewage. The other 11 plants such as Philodendron selloum, Philodendron Xanadn and Zantedeschia aethiopica etc. could grow in the urban river sewage. Considering temperature, illumination condition, pollutants absorbability and resistibility, Philodendron selloum and Philodendron Xanadn were considered to be most suitable to grow in urban riverway sewage.