Money plant is a common name for a few different plant species, including:
- Epipremnum aureum - a tropical vining plant from the Solomon Islands
- Lunaria annua - a herbaceous biennial, grown for its attractive spring flowering and dried silver seed pod middles
- Crassula ovata - a small plant with fleshy leaves, also known as a jade plant or a friendship tree
- Pilea peperomioides - a small plant with very round, dark green leafs, also known as Chinese Money Plant, Lefse Plant, or Missionary Plant and is from the south of China
- Pachira aquatica - Seven leaf tree. It is also known as Malabar chestnut, Guiana chestnut, provision tree, or saba nut.Often sold with trunks braided.
Money plants are usually in a pot.
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—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
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