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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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’.
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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.
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However, maintaining them to rebloom next year is challenging indoors.
Keep the central cup filled with water.
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