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Looking to add a pop of color to your houseplant collection?

Plants with red and green leaves are a great place to start.

Best of all, many of them are adaptable to a range of conditions and easy to keep happy.

Red aglaonema or Chinese evergreen plant with pink and green leaves in light blue pot

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Here are 47colorful houseplantswith red and green leaves to consider for your home.

It grows best in high humidity.

Try growing this humidity-loving specimen in a terrarium.

overhead view of philodendron imperial red with red and golden heart shaped leaves in center and green outer leaves

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Note that inconsistent moisture, lack of humidity or light, and changing conditions can cause leaf drop.

Black Cardinal Philodendron

This self-heading philodendron’s large, oval-shaped green leaves grow on deep red stems.

In winter, plants will benefit from a grow light.

Burgundy Rubber Tree plant

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Give them lots of indirect light and moderate humidity to help them thrive.

Look for ‘Iron Cross’, which sports lime green leaves with maroon centers.

Keep them in a bathroom for extra humidity.

red Chinese evergreen

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This species has deep red undersides to its leaves.

Pitcher plant

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Carnivorous plantslike pitcher plants eat by capturing insects.

Cultivars like ‘Bloody Mary’ and ‘Red Beauty’ sport red pitchers and green leaves.

philodendron moonlight plant with dark green outer leaves, light green inner leaves, and a red center

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This one offers striped green leaves with deep burgundy undersides.

More light will make the coloring brighter.

Look for cultivars like ‘Red Rubin’, ‘Ruby Heart’, and ‘Red West’.

tradescantia nanouk with pink, green, and white leaves in gray pot in white macrame hanger against white background

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Keep the central cup filled with water in dry environments.

Coleus

These colorful, easy-growing bedding plants can be grown indoors or outdoors.

Bring them inside before the first frost to grow them as houseplants year-round.

triostar stromanthe

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However, maintaining them to rebloom next year is challenging indoors.

Keep the central cup filled with water.

Red twist Peperomia (Peperomia verticillata) in a terracotta pot.

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Rojo congo philodendron growing indoors on a white shelf.

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red aglaonema with other plants in background

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Growing Caladium

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vase of anthurium flowers

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close up of Madagascar dragon tree plants with spiny green leaves with pink edges

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pink purple ti plant against brown backgroung

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Peperomia caperata ‘Luna Red’ growing outdoors.

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closeup of red, green, and yellow croton plants

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Philodendron black cardinal in a white studded pot against a white wall.

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Polka Dot Plant

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Echeveria nodulosa - painted Echeveria.

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closeup of a rex begonia

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Variegated rubber tree (Ficus elastica) in a basket against a pale background

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How to grow oxalis

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maranta tricolor

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Closeup of calathea fasciata leaves

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nepenthes/monkey jar plant with green leaves and red cups

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Calathea roseopicta dottie

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calathea rosy

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peperomia rosso plant with pointed green leaves with bright red undersides in ceramic plant pot

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Deep purple foliage on a philodendron royal queen

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polka dot begonia

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Hoya carnosa krimson princess against a blue background.

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Hoya rosita in a white pot.

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Philodendron micans vines with deep green velvety leaves in white pot

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pink arrowhead plant in white pot on wooden chair

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alocasia cuprea ‘red secret’ in orange plant pot on table with gray background

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red and green tricolor fern held up by arm with light skin tone in front of white background

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crassula succulent

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Green and pink mass of hens and chicks plants.

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Close up of jelly bean succulent (Sedum rubrotinctum) with bright red leaves.

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kalanchoe thyrsiflora with paddle-shaped light green leaves with red edges

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closeup of pink and green venus flytrap plant in pink pot with soil on white background

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bromeliad

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coleus plant

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poinsettias

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Rhoeo tricolor

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Cryptanthus plant

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peperomia jelly

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