If you have a reddish Purple leaf plant, you can Identify it by glancing at this post pictures. Most burgundy-leaf indoor plants are succulent or belong to Coleus, although you can find them among Calathea and Cordyline plants too. Anyway, I think the easiest way to identify your reddish-purple leaf plant is to get help from that plant identifier such as the “House Plant Identifier”.
What can be more beautiful than having reddish purple leaf plants in your house? Keep reading to tell you how to identify burgundy Leaf indoor plants with pictures and tools.
Reddish purple, burgundy or maroon leaves plants in competition with other green leaves plants will make a gorgeous view in your house. Every species of plant has its specific needs. Hence you must know the names of your reddish purple leaf plants. Join us in this article to identify your burgundy Leaf indoor plants.
In the following, we will show you 20 common house plants with reddish-purple leaves or burgundy leaves. To make it easy for you, we divide them into three groups:
A: succulent reddish purple leaf plant
B: Coleus reddish purple leaf plants
C: Other burgundy leaves (reddish purple) indoor plant
Keep reading to help you to identify your reddish purple leaf plant.
You can find succulents in various shapes and colours that will match the various decorations of your home. In my previous article, I told you how to identify indoor succulent plants. Here, you will find 7 succulents with reddish-purple or maroon leaves. if your reddish-purple leaf indoor plant is a succulent, compare it with the following images.
1-African Milk Tree ‘Rubra’
African Milk Tree ‘Rubra’ House Plant
It’s a colourful cultivar of succulents with a thick, triangle stem with thorns and pointed leaves on its edges. The stem is Green to Pink and the leaves are maroon to reddish purple.
2-Black Rose Aeonium
Black Rose Aeonium House Plant
Aeonium arboreum var. atropurpureum f. nigrum cv. Schwarzkopf (Zwartkop)
It is one of the most beautiful succulents with reddish-purple leaves similar to roses that turn to dark burgundy or even black colour in warm and sunny places.
3- Echeveria ‘Afterglow’
Echeveria ‘Afterglow’ House Plant
The Afterglow cultivar of Echeveria is one of the indoor and outdoor succulents. It has rose-shaped leaves. You may see its leaves from blue-green to Pink. If you put it in sunny places, it may turn to a reddish-purple colour.
4- Hens and Chicks ‘Purple Haze’
Hens and Chicks ‘Purple Haze’ House Plant
It is a succulent plant with burgundy and green leaves. You may see this variety with green leaves, green leaves with purple tips or purple leaves. if you put them in a sunny condition, they will turn into dark purple or even reddish purple.
5- Firerose Aeonium
Botanical Name: Aeonium garnet ‘firerose’
It’s a beautiful succulent plant with burgundy and green leaves. Its reddish purple leaves are green to yellow in the centre.
6- Dyckia Cherry Cola
Botanical Name: Dyckia platyphylla
As you can see in the above picture, Dyckia Cherry Cola is a spiky indoor plant that has narrow upright thick leaves with sharp thorns on the edges. Its leaves are dark purple to reddish purple.
7- Ruby’s necklace plant
Ruby’s necklace House plant
An easy-growing succulent with green or reddish-purple leaves cultivars. It is one of the popular purple vining houseplants. I recommend adding this pretty nice hanging houseplant to your indoor collection
Coleus are one of the most popular house plants with a lot of varieties. You can find colourful leaves in various cultivars of Colues. In the following, you can see images of some cultivars with reddish-purple, burgundy or maroon leaves.
8- Kiwi Fern Coleus
Botanical Name: Solenostemon scutellarioides ‘Kiwi Fern’
9- Dark chocolate Coleus
Dark chocolate Coleus House plant
It is one of the popular dark purple houseplants that give an elegant view to your living space.
10- Coleus burgundy
Coleus Burgundy House plant
11- Calathea Purple Rose
Calathea Purple Rose House Plant
this cultivar of Calathea has variegated colour leaves from dark or light green to purple or reddish purple.
12- Coral Bells ‘Forever Purple’
Coral Bells ‘Forever Purple’ House Plant
You can see this plant In both indoor and outdoor spaces. This variety with its maroon to reddish-purple leaves is very beautiful.
13- Coral Bells ‘Midnight Rose’
Coral Bells ‘Midnight Rose’ House Plant
you will find the leaves of this variety of coral bells in variegated patterns and colours from dark green to maroon. In the following, you can see a reddish-purple midnight Rose variety.
14- Japanese Maple
Japanese Maple House Plant
Different varieties of Japanese Maple trees have leaves in navigated colours from Green to Orange and purple. In the following, you can see a variety of reddish-purple leaves.
15- Purple Heart Plant
Purple Heart Plant House Plant
Purple Heart plant, as you can see below picture, has oblong purple leaves that can turn reddish purple. If you love vining houseplants, you can find a comprehensive collection of them with their images in my pervious post.
16- Purple Shamrock
Purple Shamrock House Plant
Purple Shamrock has 3-part leaves in purple to Redish purple colour. Be cautious it can be poisonous for you and your pets.
17- Red Leaf Cordyline
Red Leaf Cordyline House Plant
As you can see in the following picture, the red leaf cordyline has long leaves from reddish purple to Pink. You can see its green leaves in the base too.
18- Rex Begonia
Rex Begonia House Plant
it has a variegated colour leaf from Green to purple in various combinations. In the following, you can see a variety of this plant with reddish-purple leaves.
19- Cranberry Hibiscus
Botanical Name: Hibiscus acetosella
Although you usually see it in outdoor environments, it can be a very beautiful indoor Plant with its maroon to reddish-purple leaves too.
20- Obsession Nandina Shrub
Botanical Name: Nandina domestica ‘Seika’
It’s a compact plant that can grow in indoor and outdoor spaces with its green and reddish-purple leaves. If you are interested in burgundy and green leaf plants, read my other post to find 48. 🙂
21- Red Sensation
Botanical Name: Cordyline australis’ Red Sensation’
This Cordyline has sword-like red to burgundy leaves. Some people mistake it for burgundy red varieties of Dracaena plants.
In this part, we will try to introduce one of the best house plant identification tools: “House plant identifier‘. Colourful leaf varieties of house plants may have different combinations of colours in various conditions. For example, the leaves usually tend to be green in dark places but they may turn into other colours in sunny places. Hence, the identification of house plants by pictures can be hard.
House plant identifier with its huge image database with more than millions of pictures of about 14,000 plant species can identify your indoor plant with more than 91 percent accuracy. It only takes 2 seconds to identify your indoor plants.
Another wonderful thing about house plant identifiers is they can detect plant diseases too.
after reading this article, now you can identify your reddish-purple Leaf indoor plant. We showed you a collection of images of 20 burgundy, maroon, reddish-purple leaves plants. Did you find the name of your indoor plant among them? Please tell us about its name below this page.
We also showed you how to identify your reddish-purple Leaf plant by using a free online tool: house plant identifier. Did you experience it? Please share your experiences and ideas with our readers below
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.