Chinese Money Plant
4.6 out of 5 (648 experiences)
Fast grower
Easy to propagate
About Chinese Money Plant
The Chinese money plant was shared through cuttings and grown as a houseplant for 20 years before it was known or studied by British botanists! Pilea peperomioides was first collected in 1906 in the Tsangshan mountain range, which rises to almost 14,000 feet altitude just west of the ancient city of Dali in western Yunnan, China. ā°
Later, while hardly known to Western scientific communities, the species was grown in thousands of private European homes as off-shoots passed from one person to another. š¤
Taxonomy
Pilea peperomioides
Pilea
Urticaceae
Rosales
Also known as
Pancake Plant, UFO plant, Lefse Plant, Missionary Plant, Bender Plant and Mirror Grass
How to care for Chinese Money Plant
How often to water your Chinese Money Plant
every 9
Chinese Money Plant needs 0.5 cups of water every 9 when it doesnāt get direct sunlight and is potted in a 5" pot.
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Water 0.5 cups every
9
Finding light for Chinese Money Plant in your home
a window
Chinese Money Plant may have difficulty thriving, and will drop leaves š, without ample sunlight.
Place it less than 3 feet from a south-facing window to maximize the potential for growth.
Select your region to see how the current weather in your area affects the placement of Chinese Money Plant in your home š”.
How to fertilize Chinese Money Plant
Most potting soils come with ample nutrients which plants use to produce new growth.
By the time your plant has depleted the nutrients in its soil itās likely grown enough to need a larger pot anyway.
To replenish this plant's nutrients, repot your Chinese Money Plant after it doubles in size or once a yearāwhichever comes first.
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is this powdery mildew?
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Is a grow light for 3-4 hours bad for a Chinese Miney Plant #Pilea
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Just a small update on how much my baby pilea grew. #PileaPeperomioides #ChineseMoneyPlant #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #NewGrowth #PlantTherapy
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What can I do :( What can I do with my plant? I put it in water because it had bad roots, but it doesn't like it. What else can I do, I want to save it.. šš #chinesemoneyplant
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I have black dots on my money plant only on the lower leaves? I water whenever the leaves droop and the soil is dry, so Iām confused am I over watering?! #Pilea
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my pileaš My pilea, Pillyās leaves have been drooling over and dying and I donāt know how to stop it. Sheās starting to look a little balder than she did. HELP ME!!
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Is she dead or dormant..? This poor baby pilea. Sheās had it rough. If youāve seen the rather panicked saga, then youād know that last week I treated her for root rot and all her leaves fell off, making it hard for me to tell how sheās doing in the recovery stage. In the past, Iāve been really unsuccessful in bringing plants back from rot (I usually donāt realise until itās too late), and so Iām super nervous about her. I know I shouldnāt have introduced any more water to her after the rot treatment, but the stalk was starting to shrivel a little bit and so I gave her a tiny spritz of water, only enough to wet the very topmost layer of soil, just to see her through. So. The real question. Do you think sheās dead, or is she just dormant? The tips of the stalk arenāt black like my last money plant that died, but Iām not sure if that actually means sheās alive, especially as Iām not sure if sheās working on a leaf right now (I wouldnāt expect so given the rot). What are your thoughts? Will she live? (Apologies if the pictures are blurry) #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #PlantTherapy #RootRot #babyplants #ChineseMoneyPlant #Pilea #PileaPeperomioides
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Is there anything I can do to fix this guyās long bendy stem ļæ¼ #Pilea
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Plant starting to shrivel #Pilea My Chinese money plant was doing SO good and even grew some other babies. However my largest plant (on the right) randomly shriveled up and died and now the babies are starting to wilt and struggle to grow new leaves. The ONLY thing thatās really changed is I havenāt given it the all purpose plant food that I get from Kroger in about the past month.
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Hope Iām not too late for #FreshLeafFriday!! šŖ“ This is my friend @HipRomannettleās plant. The plant wasnāt doing so well with the cold, so she asked me to take it in till spring. Apparently he had lost a lot of leaves, but look how well heās recovering already!! Three new baby leaves and three more following behind! š±š #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #NewGrowth #PlantAddict #PlantTherapy
Care Summary for Chinese Money Plant
Chinese Money Plant
Greg recommends:
Water
0.5 cups every 9 days
Placement
< 3ft from a window
Nutrients
Repot after 2x growth
Based on the 4ā pot your plant is in, and that it doesnāt get direct sunlight.
What other plant parents say
Fast grower 384
Easy to propagate 261
Survivor 260
Large, lush leaves 147
Browns easily 72
Blooms easily 37
Pest magnet 10
04/10/2022
Love this plant, when I bought it it had a few pups that werenāt ready to be separated. I recently separated them from the mom plant and wow they propagate so easy. Got six viable propagations and all of them have new root growth! It grows very fast and has almost doubled in size from when I bought it 3 months ago.
Itās pet friendly so if my cat decides to take a test chomp (and subsequently realize it doesnāt taste good) itāll be fine.
I did an experiment where I potted it in straight LECA for super drainage and even longer periods between watering and so far so good! It tends to be a little dramatic after being repotted but after a week it perks back up. It doesnāt like sharp temperature changes, that tends to be what makes the leaves curl (that and letting me know it needs to be watered).
Fast grower
Easy to propagate
Survivor
04/06/2022
he grows new leaves every week lol, sometimes iāll find pups too!! doesnāt like the cold and getting leaves wet but otherwise super easy :) i just water whenever the soil is mostly dry, maybe like 75%. repot shock is a bit more obvious with this one but he recovers quickly.
Fast grower
Large, lush leaves
Easy to propagate
04/03/2022
So easy. So cool looking
Fast grower
Large, lush leaves
Easy to propagate
Survivor
03/26/2022
So cute! So beautiful! Itās called a friendship plant for a reason!!! šš
Fast grower
Easy to propagate
Survivor
03/08/2022
Very easy to care for and grows fast!
02/28/2022
Can survive overwatering! Thatās my frequent problem: watering too much. This plant will withstand watering when the soil is still moist and turn out beautiful.
Fast grower
Large, lush leaves
Easy to propagate
Survivor
02/20/2022
Such a cutie love how fast it grows
Fast grower
Easy to propagate
Survivor
02/18/2022
Little UFO leaves are the cutest!
Fast grower
Blooms easily
Survivor
01/27/2022
Hands down my most favorite plant! I bought this when it was tiny in a 3 inch pot and the growth has been SO satisfying.
Fast grower
Large, lush leaves
Survivor
01/19/2022
Just an all-around easy plant
Survivor
Easy to propagate
01/18/2022
Hell of a guitarist
Survivor
01/14/2022
Grows quickly and shoots off baby plants frequently making it easy to propagate. But itās also kind of boring. They like to be dry and have a lot of light but too much direct light with burn the leaves.
Fast grower
Easy to propagate
Survivor
01/11/2022
Easiest plant to prop ever. This was one of 5 props from a mother plant. Basically impossible to kill. Biggest key is donāt overwater.
Fast grower
Easy to propagate
01/11/2022
Easiest plant ever. Give it light, donāt overwater, and itāll pop out babies.
Fast grower
Survivor
Easy to propagate
01/11/2022
Tons of babies at first, went more dormant during colder months and has yet to bounce back. However babies are growing strong and healthy in new pots, lots of gifts for friends. Having some issues with dropping/drooping leaves as it can get a bit picky
Easy to propagate
01/10/2022
The leaves on this plant are just like coins, they are amazing and surprisingly heavier than they look. The Chinese money plant can be prone to burning so keep out of direct sunlight. And rotate every few days to ensure it grows evenly, itās also best to use filtered water!
Fast grower
Easy to propagate
Browns easily
Large, lush leaves
01/08/2022
No matter what I did mine just kept dropping leaves and then it was bare
Browns easily
01/04/2022
Very easy starter plant. Water from the bottom and give bright, indirect light. Wait to water until the leaves start to droop - but not too far.
Rewarding & easy to prop.
Fast grower
Easy to propagate
01/02/2022
Sheās thriving under a grow light, had 4 puppies in less than a monthā¦ I bottom water it when the soil is completely dry. Sheās a āļø!
Fast grower
Large, lush leaves
Easy to propagate
12/24/2021
Keeps dropping downwards and getting see-through leavesā¦ cannot figure out what is going on but it is still sending out babies from its roots.
Browns easily
Fast grower
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