Chinese Money Plant Profile
Chinese Money Plant is a small evergreen tree of the bombacaceae family, also known as Malabar chestnut, Chinese and American kapok, goose paw money. Costa Rica, Australia and some small islands in the Pacific Ocean are native to Latin America. They are also distributed in tropical areas of southern China.
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Chinese Money Plant morphological characteristics
Small trees are normally 4-5 m tall, loosely crowned, young branches chestnut brown and glabrous. Leaflets short-stalked or subsessile, oblong, acuminate, basally cuneate, entire, glabrous above, abaxial surface and petiole rusted stellate hairs. Apical leaf axils of single branches of flowers; Pedicels stout, 2 cm long,shed, covered with yellow stellate hairs. Petals yellowish green, narrowly lanceolate to linear, up to 15 cm long, upper half inversely curving. Seeds are large, irregularly ladder-wedge-shaped, 2-2.5 cm long and 1-1.5 cm wide, epidermis dark brown, with white threads, containing multiple embryos. Flowering from May to November, the fruit has been mature, seeds after landing natural germination.Chinese Money Plant growth habit and growing environment and distribution
Chinese Money Plant, evergreen trees, the high temperature and high humidity climate, cold hardiness, seedling cream frost, adult trees are resistant to light cream and 5-6 c low temperature for a long time. It can be outdoor wintering in the southern China region, but the areas north of the winter should be moved to a warm greenhouse, breathable water silty loam, and acidic soil. Avoid heavy alkaline soil, the resistance to water wet, and a drought.Costa Rica, Australia and some small islands in the Pacific Ocean are native to Latin America. They are also distributed in tropical areas of southern China. Fortune tree for perennial evergreen shrubs, like warm, humid, sunny or slightly sparse shade environments. In recent years, through cultivation and breeding, it has been widely spread to urban and rural families in China, Hainan, Leizhou Peninsula and other areas.