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Fruits of the Malabar chestnut. Picture was taken at the Marie Selby Botanical Garden, Sarasota, Florida. The tree is about 15 feet tall and growing in what looks to be a 200-gallon pot.
please, can any of you answer this?
2 of my friends in southern ca have had their small potted pachira with braided trunk as houseplants and the trunks go soft.
what are we missing
any input will be appreciated. debbie
A really old (embarrassingly old) message in the helpdesk queue about this image and the others of the fruit said:
Quoted:
The flowers shown on the page belong to Pachira aquatica, but the fruits belong to Pachira insignis, also known as Bombax glabra (old-world designation). P. aquatica has a much larger brown fruit filled with less numerous seeds. P. insignis has white stamens, while P. aquatica has red-orange stamens. P. insignis has a smaller, green, woody fruit capsule which is filled with the "french peanuts".
