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Nursery Direct
Money Tree
Pachira aquatica
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
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Supplied in 400mmtypically 1.5 to 2.5m tall on delivery
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Money Tree - Pachira aquatica
Money tree is grown for the architecture of its leaf: long stalked, glossy palmate fans of five to nine leaflets held on a smooth green trunk that thickens into a swollen base. Pachira aquatica comes from seasonally flooded river margins in tropical America, which is why it tolerates a wet root zone far better than most indoor specimens and why it grows quickly given warmth. In Australia it is planted outdoors as a subtropical feature tree from about Coffs Harbour north, and used everywhere else as a large indoor or covered patio plant.
Why Money Tree
Sculptural Leaf: The umbrella like palmate leaves give a strong tropical silhouette from a single stem, without a shrubby mass of growth.
Indoor Tolerance: It is one of the few genuinely tree formed plants that will hold condition in bright filtered indoor light for years.
Swollen Trunk Base: Older plants develop a thickened, water storing base that reads as a feature in its own right.
Fast Response to Warmth: Given heat, humidity and feeding it puts on noticeable height each season and can be pruned to shape.
Moisture Forgiving: Its swamp origins mean it copes with a heavier watering regime than most tropical foliage trees.
Ideal Applications
Indoor Feature: A single specimen near a bright window or skylight holds a corner in a living area, office foyer or stairwell.
Covered Patio and Atrium: Sheltered outdoor rooms in temperate cities suit it year round provided it never meets frost.
Tropical Garden Tree: In frost free coastal Queensland and the Northern Territory it grows on as a genuine small to medium shade tree.
Pond and Creek Margins: In the tropics it will grow at a water edge where the soil stays wet through the wet season.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 2 to 3m for a grove effect in tropical gardens
Spacing (feature/avenue): 4 to 6m in the ground, or standalone as a container specimen
Best Planting Season: Spring and early summer, once night temperatures are reliably above 15C
Soil & Drainage: Rich, free draining mix or soil; it takes seasonally wet ground outdoors but rots in cold, stagnant potting mix indoors
Establishment Care: Water thoroughly and then let the top few centimetres dry before watering again, cutting back noticeably through winter. Keep it out of cold draughts and away from any frost, feed monthly with a balanced liquid fertiliser through the warm months, and wipe the leaves occasionally so indoor plants keep their gloss.
Plant Details
Height: 1.5 to 2.5m indoors or in a container, 5 to 10m planted out in the tropics
Width: 1 to 2m in a pot, 3 to 5m in the ground
Growth Rate: Fast in warmth, slow in cool conditions
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Bright filtered light indoors; part shade to full sun outdoors in the tropics, with young plants protected from harsh afternoon sun
Native to: Wetlands and river margins of Central and northern South America
Flower Colour: Cream petals that curl back behind a brush of long pink tipped stamens, opening at night and rarely produced indoors
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







