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money tree plant outdoor Pachira aquaticaPachira aquatica Pachira aquatica is a tropical wetland tree with palmate green leaves, smooth young stems, and a tree like outline. Each leaf is divided into long leaflets arranged like fingers from a central point, giving the plant a lush but still tidy shape in a pot. In the wild, Pachira aquatica grows in freshwater swamps, estuaries, riverbanks, and tropical rainforest habitats from Mexico into northern South America. Indoors it behaves as a
Pachira aquatica
Pachira aquatica is a tropical wetland tree with palmate green leaves, smooth young stems, and a tree-like outline. Each leaf is divided into long leaflets arranged like fingers from a central point, giving the plant a lush but still tidy shape in a pot.
In the wild, Pachira aquatica grows in freshwater swamps, estuaries, riverbanks, and tropical rainforest habitats from Mexico into northern South America. Indoors it behaves as a manageable woody houseplant: it needs bright indirect light, regular moisture with oxygen around the roots, and a container that never traps stagnant water.
Indoor tree traits
- Growth habit: A woody tropical tree that stays container-sized through pruning and restricted root space.
- Leaf shape: Glossy palmate leaves carry several narrow leaflets from one central point.
- Stem detail: Young stems are green to smooth brown and thicken gradually as the plant matures.
- Wetland origin: Natural wetland habitats mean the plant dislikes total drought, but potted roots still need air.
- Common names: Often called money tree, Malabar chestnut, Guiana chestnut, or saba nut in horticulture.
Wetland roots in a pot
Pachira aquatica is an accepted species in Malvaceae, the mallow family. Outdoors in frost-free tropical regions it can become a sizeable evergreen tree, but container plants remain far smaller and tolerate pruning well. New leaves usually appear from the stem tips, so cutting back a leggy shoot can encourage a fuller outline when the plant is actively growing.
Its native habitats are consistently moist, but indoor pots need a balance between water and air. In freshwater swamps, riverbanks, and estuarine edges, moisture is paired with moving water, open ground, and oxygen around the roots. In a closed pot, heavy wet substrate can turn sour quickly. A free-draining mix, a pot with drainage holes, and a steady watering rhythm keep moisture available without leaving the roots stagnant.
Care for steady palmate leaf growth
- Light: Give bright indirect light, with soft morning or evening sun where available; very dim corners lead to weak, sparse growth.
- Watering: Water when the upper part of the substrate has dried, then let excess water drain fully from the pot.
- Substrate: Use an airy houseplant mix with bark, coco chips, perlite, pumice, or similar drainage material.
- Humidity: Average indoor humidity is usually tolerated, while stable warmth and airflow matter more than constantly wet leaves.
- Temperature: Keep above 15°C and protect from cold drafts, especially after watering.
- Feeding: Feed lightly during spring and summer when new leaves are forming, then reduce feeding in slower winter growth.
- Pruning: Trim overlong shoots in active growth to keep the plant balanced and encourage new side shoots.
- Repotting: Repot when roots fill the pot, moving only one pot size up to avoid excess wet substrate around the root ball.
Leaf and stem warning signs
- Yellowing leaves: Check for a pot sitting wet for too long, poor drainage, or cold roots after watering.
- Drooping leaflets: Often points to dry roots or a sudden change in light, temperature, or watering rhythm.
- Leaf drop: Can follow relocation, cold drafts, or repeated drought; stabilise conditions and avoid moving the plant often.
- Soft stem base: Inspect immediately for root or stem rot, especially if the substrate smells sour or remains wet for many days.
- Brown leaflet tips: Check watering consistency, mineral build-up, and hot direct sun through glass.
Flowering and fruiting indoors
Pachira aquatica may flower and fruit outdoors in tropical climates, producing large flowers and woody capsules with seeds, but indoor plants rarely reach that stage. As a houseplant, it usually shows its leafy crown and woody stem growth rather than flowers.
Pet safety and plant handling
Pachira aquatica is listed by the ASPCA as non-toxic to dogs, cats, and horses. Treat indoor plants as ornamental houseplants, and keep fallen leaves or pruned stems away from pets or children that chew plants.
What aquatica refers to
Pachira aquatica Aubl. was first published by Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet in 1775. The genus name Pachira is derived from a Guyanese name, while aquatica refers to the plant’s association with water and wet tropical habitats.
Pachira aquatica develops the familiar money tree form through palmate green leaves, woody stems and steady indoor tree growth.
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A must-read for anyone interested in communication studies, rhetoric, American public debates
Format: Paperback
In this seminal book, Fisher expounds his "narrative paradigm," a sweeping theory of human communication and more. Professor Emeritus at USC's Annenberg School of Communication, Fisher's discipline was rhetoric. But the book's subtitle -- "Toward a Philosophy of Reason, Value, and Action" -- isn't a stretch. Fisher's theory is a grand project extending its purview way beyond the communication department's door. At root is Fisher's rejection of what he calls the "rational world paradigm," which falsely separates logos from mythos, reason from imagination, fact from value. Doesn't work that way, Fisher says. No such thing as a value-free belief, assertion, or action. Instead, we evaluate according to a "logic of good reasons" -- reasons we value as good -- rooted in the narratives of our experience.
An under-appreciated aspect of Fisher's work is the application of his theory to American politics. America's most enduring narrative is The American Dream. But that dream comprises two sub-narrative strands: the "materialistic myth" and the "moralistic myth." These two strands broadly represent conservative and progressive impulses respectively, but those threadbare categories don't do Fisher's explication justice. The two myths find their roots in the narratives of the earliest Americans, and have been battling it out ever since. It's a credible understanding of the history of American public moral debates.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2010
★★★★★ 4
Insider's Book
Format: Paperback
Wlater R. Fisher is an expert in his field. His grasp of classical theory is daunting. Human Communication as Narrative explains his new theory well. However, it IS an insider's book, intended for scholars. I have a master's degree in rhetoric and composition, and my progress through it was slow--however, this was more attributable to my having stopped at an MA than it was to Fisher. I found his theory exhaustively researched, skillfully and thoughfully developed, and eminently applicable to the practice of contemporary rhetorical study. I would regard this book as a must-have for any serious student of rhetoric.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2011
★★★★★ 5
Not only will this give you a great overview/introduction, but Fisher is a good writer as ...
Format: Paperback
I'm a fan of the Narrative Paradigm, and this is the seminal work on that. Not only will this give you a great overview/introduction, but Fisher is a good writer as well. Very clear, succinct, and engaging.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2016
★★★★★ 5
The Dark Roots of Liberalism
Format: Hardcover
Italian philosopher/intellectual history Domenico Losurdo's study of the origins of liberalism is a tour de force of thorough scholarship and rigorous critique. Losurdo seems to have read all of the collected works of all of the significant thinkers in the liberal tradition, from Locke to de Tocqueville and beyond, and has created a coherent and compelling narrative of their themes and variations, as well as their rhetorical tropes and myriad contradictions.
Classical liberalism, as here presented, is an attempt to translate the world, in all its richness and mystery, into property, and to transform property into the fullest expression of both nature and nature's God. It involves fetishizing "liberty" and disdaining equality, which is seen -- correctly -- as potentially compromising the God-given prerogatives of property holders.
Losurdo's liberals divide the world into the "community of the free" -- always a minority -- and the servile majority. These masses do not deserve liberty or political participation because they perceive government as a way to address human suffering, and not simply as a bulwark protecting the divine rights of capital, i.e. the "private" realm. The classical liberal sees government as good to the extent that it has no social function at all -- because poverty and radical inequity are understood not as the outcome of human social and political arrangements, but as a reflection of immutable natural law and simple human frailty. Social Darwinist and eugenic motifs float through the Liberal symphony almost from the beginning, supplanting without really changing the earlier Protestant notion of predestination, but shifting the location of eternal reward or damnation to the marketplace and workplace.
Thus liberalism sides against social emancipation, whether of slaves or peasants or factory laborers. The job of workers within a liberal commonwealth, as depicted by most of these thinkers, is to embrace their freedom to starve and cherish the institutions that oppress them in the sweet and holy name of Liberty. Slavery makes many of these thinkers uneasy, but it is not as profoundly disturbing to them as the prospect of central government tampering with the sacred rights of property holders by abolishing an institution that makes a mockery of any concept of human liberty.
It is the radical thinkers of the French Revolution, and those influenced by them, who come out favorably here -- the ones who believe that the community must be seen as one body, and that freedom and dignity belong to all, without exception. Losurdo reminds us that it was not classical liberals who abolished slavery -- it was the Black Jacobins who brought the Rights of Man to the subjugated Africans of Haiti in history's only successful slave rebellion (at least since Moses). They were supported by the religiously inspired abolitionists, who saw slavery in moral rather than capitalist terms.
Losurdo shows that liberalism took on the despotism of Church and Crown, only to create a harsher and colder absolutism of Money and Market, wrapped up in the rhetoric of Reason and tied with the ribbon of Freedom. And though classical liberalism has mutated over time and allowed the community of the free to expand somewhat, its fundamental biases remain in place, as witnessed in every ding-dong attack against "big government" or the "nanny state." Losurdo's "counter-history" of liberalism places these tediously reflexive political gambits in historical context, showing that they are rooted in a vision of the state as a kind of gated community, serving those within the threshold of privilege, suppressing those on the outside.
At a time when political discourse centers on the percentages of the included and excluded, the worthy and the unworthy -- Occupy Wall Street's 1 percent and 99 percent, Mitt Romney's 47 percent (which was also his percentage of the vote) -- Losurdo's study is highly relevant and enlightening. It underscores the deep tensions between classical liberalism -- with its governance by and for the elite, and passive citizenship for the rest -- and the ideals of participatory and inclusive democracy, i.e., social democracy. It is an important book, and I recommend it to everyone with an interest in the history of political theory, and a desire to understand why our own political processes seem to take place in an abstract realm so cosmically distant from the reality of everyday life.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2012
★★★★★ 5
A brilliant reassessment of Western intellectual history
Format: Kindle
"Liberalism: A Counter History" by Domenico Losurdo offers a brilliant reassessment of Western intellectual history. Dr. Losurdo is a leading Italian intellectual who has taught at university for many decades. Dr. Losurdo's book will interest readers desiring bold, thoughtful and compelling perspectives on U.S. and European history; with insights that may be very useful to us today.
More than anything else, Dr. Losurdo's work articulates a highly original and powerful critique of the ideology of capitalist property relations. Diving into the writings of John Locke, Adam Smith, Bernard de Mandeville and other influential Enlightenment thinkers, Dr. Losurdo explains that the principle goal of liberalism (used here in the European sense of the word) was to secure the rights of property holders over the poor; without the meddlesome interference of church and monarchy.
Readers who are accustomed to viewing U.S. history through rose-colored glasses will find their views severely challenged here. Dr. Losurdo persuasively argues that Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and other revolutionaries enthusiastically embraced liberal ideology in order to help institutionalize its brutal slave economy. Put another way, it seems that Independence was ultimately about the prerogatives of the elite class who comprised the "community of the free" to buy, sell and own slaves. Dr. Losurdo goes on to explain how Americans put philosophy into service to justify Anglo-Saxon racial superiority and the violent dispossession of native peoples' lands.
Dr. Losurdo discusses how liberalism has influenced world history since the American Revolution. Through Dr. Losurdo's scholarship, we gain appreciation for the inherent tension that exists between liberalism's `emancipation' of the people who are privileged by virtue of their race and class; versus the `dis-emancipation' of the working class and poor who are comprised mostly of people of color. So, while liberals' greatest proponents have tended to use violence to lock in elite privilege (colonialism, the U.S. Civil War, the two World Wars), radicals have often struggled in the name of freedom for the people (the Haitian Revolution and the French Revolution).
Importantly, Dr. Losurdo challenges us to rethink the idea that progress is a natural by-product of liberalism. It is probably more accurate to say that liberals would be content to have the people live in misery; and that freedoms have been gained by ordinary people through struggle and collective action. The importance of this insight cannot be overstated. By compelling us to think anew about the liberal legacy, we can more easily detect the liberal apologists who pander for the one percent; while empowering the 99 percent of us to speak truth to power.
I highly recommend this outstanding book to everyone.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2014