A hanging Pachira glabra flower spreads many long white stamens with yellow tips beneath recurved yellow-green petals

Pachira glabra


Native to eastern Brazil, this evergreen tree grows in Atlantic forest habitats and is commonly called Guinea peanut or money tree. Large white flowers have numerous long, fine stamens spreading from a central cluster. The blossoms open at night and are short-lived. It belongs to Malvaceae. Photographed in Colombia.

Pachira glabra has a cream flower with long white stamens

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