I’m sure you have seen plants with green leaves and red edges but a plant with red leaves and green edges is uncommon. I found most of them among the varieties of Coleus (such as Coleus Kong Rose or Watermelon), Caladium (like Caladium Freida Hemple), Aglaonema (such as Aglaonema Red Anjamani), and Begonia (like Begonia Rex Macarena)
I’m a horticultural consultant and have provided a collection of 38 red-leaf plants with green edges. I hope it helps you with the following things:
➡ If you have one of them and don’t know its name, here you can identify your plant with red leaves and green edges.
➡ A combination of red-leaf plants with green leaves can make a perfect view in your house but if you have a small place, you can make this lovely view only in a pot of a plant with green and red leaves. Here you will find a broad collection in various shapes and sizes that help you choose the best indoor decor or landscape.
In addition, plants have their specific needs and caring manner, so, you have to know their names to find their caring tips. In the following, I will show you how to identify your plant with red leaves and green edges easily and quickly by one of the best free online plant identifiers. So, keep reading.
A Fact About Colorful Plants: Colourful plants such as red leaves and green edges plants may return to a green hue in low-light conditions or after fertilizing with a high nitrate fertilizer. So, before buying a colourful plant, consider the best place with a proper fertilizer for it. |
In this part, we will show you the images of 38 plants with red leaves and green edges. They belong to the 4 major groups of indoor and outdoor colourful leaves plants. Hence, to make the identification of your plant easy for you, we put these plants in the four following groups:
Keep reading to find your plant with red leaves and green edges among them.
Coleus plants are multicoloured leaves with variegated shapes and sizes. they are popular outdoor and indoor plants. The leaves are usually heart or oval-shaped which helps us with plant identification by leaf. You may find the leaves from small to large in various cultivars. In the following, you can see 11 varieties of this beautiful plant with red leaves and green edges, however, you may spot other colours on their leaves such as burgundy, maroon and pink too.
1- ColorBlaze Wicked Witch
ColorBlaze Wicked Witch plant
2- French Quarter
French Quarter plant
3- Trusty Rusty
Trusty Rusty plant
4- Wizard Rose
Wizard Rose plant
5-Kong Rose
Kong Rose plant
7-Wizard Coral Sunrise
Wizard Coral Sunrise plant
8- Wizard Scarlet
Wizard Scarlet plant
9-Watermelon
Watermelon plant
10-Burgundy Wedding Train
Burgundy Wedding Train plant
11-FlameThrower
FlameThrower plant
Caladium plants have heart-shaped leaves, although you can spot triangular, round or ovate leaves too in various varieties. The leaves have three main veins in the shape of an inverted letter Y.
Caladium plants are one of the largest colourful leaves plants with various cultivars. You can spot them in indoor and outdoor spaces. However, they are not safe plants for cats and dogs. In the following, you can see the images of 23 caladium plants with red leaves and green edges. You may find other red theme colours such as burgundy, maroon and pink in some varieties too.
12- Southern Charm
Southern Charm plant
13- Puppy Love
Puppy Love plant
14- Clowning Around
Clowning Around plant
15-Bold & Beautiful
Bold & Beautiful
16-Berries & Burgundy
Berries & Burgundy plant
17-Carolyn Whorton
Berries & Burgundy plant
18-Fannie Munson
Fannie Munson
19-Freida Hemple
Freida Hemple plant
20-Florida Sweetheart
Florida Sweetheart plant
21-Apple Blossom
Apple Blossom plant
22-Blushing Bride
Blushing Bride plant
23-Postman Joyner
Postman Joyner plant
24-Red Flash
Red Flash plant
25-Red Frill
Red Frill plant
26-Rosebud
Rosebud plant
27-Rosemary
Rosemary plant
28-Scarlet Flame
Scarlet Flame plant
29-Tiki Torch
Tiki Torch plant
30-Bold N’ Beautiful
Bold N’ Beautiful plant
31-Caribbean Coral
Caribbean Coral
32-Flatter Me
Flatter Me plant
33-Just Saucy
Just Saucy plant
34-Rose Glow
Rose Glow
Aglaonema plants have Oval or lance-shaped leaves. In most variates the leaves are green with light green or white patterns. but some cultivars have variegated colour leaves from green to red. In the following, you can see the images of 3 varieties with red leaves and green edges.
35-Aglaonema ‘Valentine’
Scientific Name: Aglaonema Commutatum
36-Aglaonema Red Anjamani
Aglaonema Red Anjamani plant
37-Aglaonema ‘Pink Dalmatian’
Aglaonema ‘Pink Dalmatian’ plant
It is also known as Chinese evergreens.
The begonia leaves are usually heart, oval or spade-shaped in various colours and patterns. In the following, you can see a varieties of Begonia plants with red leaves and green edges.
Although you will spot other red theme colours such as reddish-pink, burgundy, maroon or even reddish-purple. In addition, you may see various patterns on leaves too such as white spots.
38-Begonia Rex Macarena
Begonia Rex Macarena
If you are thinking about the changing colour combination of the leaves during various conditions and in this situation how you can identify your plant by only a picture, I will say you “use tools to identify your plant”. One of the best ones to identify plants with high accuracy is the “House plant identifier“.
this plant identification tool has a huge collection of millions of images of about 14,000 plant species. so, it will identify your house plant, trees, flowers, ornamentals, etc quickly with 91% accuracy by comparing the image of your plant with its huge image collection. I laos tested it for wild plant identification.
working with it is very easy and you just take an online picture of your plant or upload its image, “House plant identifier “ with its advanced algorithm and using artificial intelligence and learning machines.
“House plant identifier ” can identify your plant in 2 seconds. you can also detect plant disease with this tool.
Another thing that causes me to recommend “House Plant Identifier” is that it is a free online tool, and its app will be available to download soon.
although plants with red leaves and green edges are not common, here we showed you 38 of them with their images. did you find your indoor plant among them? What was its name?
In addition, we showed you to how identify your plant with red leaves and green edges with one of the best plant identification tools: House plant identifier. Have you ever used it? please share your experience with our readers below this page.
Hi, I’m Elaheh. My Academic major is plant protection, and houseplants are my expertise. As a houseplant lover, my house is full of indoor plants and it is my passion to take care of them. Hence, I’m here to share my knowledge and experience about growing healthy houseplants. I am also a plant protection advisor, so feel free to ask me any questions you may have.