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Pachira glabra
Also called Luckytree, Moneytree, Saba Nut Tree
Pachira glabra, often sold as the money tree or Guinea peanut, is a wetland tree from eastern Brazil grown mainly as a houseplant. It thrives in bright light and tolerates both drought and wet roots, so overwatering is the main risk.
Pachira glabra (syn. Bombacopsis glabra) is a tropical wetland tree in the mallow family, Malvaceae, native to eastern Brazil, where it grows along waterways. It is generally known by the nonscientific names Guinea peanut, French peanut, Saba nut, money tree, and lucky tree. It shares many of these common names with the similar P. aquatica.
The species is native to eastern Brazil, where it grows along rivers and other waterways.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pachira glabra by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
