| Scientific Name: | Pachira aquatica |
| Common Name: | money tree |
| Family Name: | Malvaceae |
| Origin: | Central America, Mexico |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 10: (-1 to 4 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Indoor foliage plant |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Indoor plant |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Digitate (palmate), Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Panicle, White, Yellow, Red |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Edible, Aborted (hybrids) or absent, Brown |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems of potted plants often braided; leaves alternate, palmately compound, with 5-6(-9) leaflets, elliptic to oblanceolate, 10-30cm long x 5-12cm wide, dark green, margin entire. | |