Money Tree

Small trees, normally 4-5 m, in the wild up to 18 m. Trunk sometimes buttressed. Bark smooth. Always on moist soil (wetlands). Leaves shiny green, palmate with lanceolate leaflets. Flowers are among the largest tree flowers in the world. Long narrow petals, open like a banana peel and reveal hairlike yellowish orange stamens.

Native to swamps of Central and South America, often cultivated throughout the tropics as a popular ornamental plant (many specimens in cultivation sold as Pachira aquatica are actually the simillar species P. glabra).

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Another common name for the money tree (Pachira aquatica) is “French Peanut”.