EPPO Global Database

Pachira aquatica(PCJAQ)

Overview
Code created in: 2002-04-09

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: PCJAQ
  • Preferred name: Pachira aquatica
  • Authority: Aublet

Notes

Mexico, Central America, South America (northern). Cultivated as an ornamental garden tree, and also as a houseplant, single or braided (like its close relative P.  glabra)Introduced in Caribbean, Sénégal, Cameroon, Congo


Common names
Name Language
Guiana chestnut English
Malabar chestnut English
money tree English
pachira nut English
provision tree English
saba nut English
water chestnut English
wild cocoa English
Wasserkastanie German
cacao sauvage French
cacaoyer rivière French
châtaignier de Guyane French
châtaignier marron French
pachirier aquatique French
amapola Spanish
apombo Spanish (HN)
castaño de agua Spanish
oje Spanish
palo de boya Spanish
tetón Spanish
zapote bobo Spanish (HN)
zapote de agua Spanish
castanheiro-da-guiana Portuguese (BR)
castanheiro-de-água Portuguese
kaiennatsu Japanese
pakira Japanese
カイエンナッツ Japanese
パキラ Japanese
guā lì Chinese
瓜栗 Chinese