Hedge plant effective at filtering automobile air pollutants
A combined team of researchers from the Royal Horticultural Society and the University of Reading has found that the Cotoneaster franchetii (also known as Franchet's cotoneaster) hedge plant is effective at filtering automobile air pollutants. In their paper published in the journal Environments, the group describes experiments that involved testing different types of plants to find out which were best at filtering air pollution next to roadways.