| Scientific Name: | Castanospermum australe |
| Common Name: | lucky bean, Australian chestnut, Moreton Bay chestnut |
| Family Name: | Fabaceae |
| Origin: | Australia / New Zealand |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Lustrous, Odd-pinnate, Elliptic, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Raceme, Orange, Yellow, Mar-Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Edible, Legume, Brown, Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Attractive indoor foliage plant usually <2m tall in pots (large evergreen tree to 10-40m tall in nature); leaves pinnately compound with 11-15 elliptic leaflets, most 10-15cm long x 3-5cm wide; flowers pea-like, yellowish red, 2-3cm long; legumes hard shelled, brown, with 3-5 chestnut-sized dark-brown seeds. | |