did you know about a money tree?

Very hard to edit pictures on notebook with my mouse (primary instrument I use for doing Photoshop retouch! ) broken... more to that, writing the post and switching all the windows too. But I will try what I can do, just the post probably will not be that huge ;)

By the way, this is my first post to the Succulent growers community. I often lurking here, enjoy the visuals and giving upvotes from time to time to the blogs I like, but something was keeping myself from posting here.

The truth is that I am no 'green hands' at all, and I'd feel ashamed to show what I have ;) and my collection simply doesnt rank to what I see here. So...

A while ago I visited hospital (and I have to return there a dozen times more for procedures), and discovered there this nice plant. You will be smiling widely at me, but I do have three (!) editions of same plant at home, but... they just didnt look so cool, and I have a much worse lightning that this window in a hospital.

I was really appealed by this succulent tree to make some captures. On my return there other day I borrowed camera with me, and made the captures. I am not sure I nailed it this time (it was rather cloudy on that day, and I'd prefer more sun for macro shooting...), so maybe I will come back another day and redo the session again.

Still, some of the shots turned out to be quite enjoyable, and they convey the charm of this plant.

It is Сrassula arborescence, or a 'Coin tree', or 'Money Tree', as it is often referred to in Russian. Sometimes they even call it 'tree of happiness', but I never heard it myself.

The reason is that the fleshy leaves of this plant resemble coins.... (hmm, do they really?) one way or another, many folks's hopes for financial well-being are associated with this plant, thats a fact. They grow this tree (often more than one), take care of it and carefully monitor it, interpreting all the "signals" received. I am not an expert in this matter at all, but Google helped to find the main "establishments" of this faith ...

The beliefs that I will write about below, I learned just tonight from this article.

• If you see shedding leaves, count how many leaves have fallen off, and prepare that your profit will fall exactly by that many percent.
• If you received as a gift a large copy of this plant - that is a sign that Big Profit is awaiting you soon. But if a small bush was presented, then expect your profit to be slow and gradual.
• If the plant fell, the pot broke, and the soil spilled out, -- financial difficulties should be expected soon.
• If the plant began to dry and wither, then efforts should be made to fix it. If all else fails, then get rid of the bush... or your wealth 'become unhealthy' in same way.
• To enhance the intense cash flow in your house, several banknotes should be hung on a bush. Besides that, it is recommended to remove old banknotes regularly and change them to a new ones. AAAAAAA!!!!!! Now I understand the point, what am I doing wrong -- my plants have no banknotes on their branches, not a single one! lol... PS > Some put the coins over the soil in the pot (at least I noticed that in some pictures) -- which looks like a questionable decision for me.

As I already mentioned - I have three such plants at home, and... no, my family dont take money showers. Sadly.

One may ask if I believe the magic qualities of the tree... of course no. I just love its outlook (at least when the plant didnt turn into a huge tree, leaving me tiny space to live on)... exactly like a lot of other succulent lovers, I guess.