Provision tree
Pachira aquatica Aubl.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 5.5 m
- wide
- 5.5 m
Malvaceae
Also called Malabar Chestnut, Money tree, Guiana-chestnut
Formerly Bombax aquaticum, Bombax macrocarpum, Bombax rigidifolium, Carolinea grandiflora, and 6 more
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to S. Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.8 m to 9.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.8 m to 9.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, cream, yellow, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Zapote de agua, Apompo
- root
- Litsokni, Ma-toz-mán, Xiloxóchitl grande o blanco
- Portuguese
- Castanhola, Manguba, Monguba
- Chinese
- 馬拉巴栗, 瓜栗, 發財樹
- German
- Wilder Kakaobaum, Guyana, Malabar Kastanie
- Czech
- pachira vodní
- Japanese
- パキラ, カイエンナット
- Chinese (China)
- 瓜栗, 发财树, 马拉巴栗
- Polish
- Pachira wodna
- Russian
- Пахира водная
- Swedish
- strandkastanj
- Hebrew
- אגוז מלבר
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Pachira aquatica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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