If you are looking for a way to add a touch of elegance and vibrance to your home, I recommend reddish-purple leaf plants like Coleus burgundy. Here I listed 21 burgundy maroon leaf plants that help you choose the best for your house or office. Some like Hens and Chicks ‘Purple Haze’ are small succulents, ideal for cosy corners and others like African Milk Tree ‘Rubra’ can grow to several heights.
You will also find hanging reddish-purple leaf plants like Ruby’s necklace with striking colours and unique beauty that are perfect for any shelves, windowsill, or hanging basket. I think my burgundy maroon leaf hanging plants will be eye-catching objects in your indoor decor (or even outdoors and landscapes).
Adding these captivating plants will be a perfect way to enhance any space. No matter where you place them, a living room, an office, or even a cosy corner, their rich hues bring a sense of life by breathing new energy and style into your surroundings. If you are ready, let’s get going to find my list of the best reddish-purple leaf plants.
A: Succulent Reddish Purple Leaf Plants
You can find succulents in various shapes and colours that will match the various decorations of your home. Here, you will find 7 succulents with reddish-purple or maroon leaves.
1-African Milk Tree ‘Rubra’
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. If you are interested in Red succulents, I listed them in my other post.
2-Black Rose Aeonium
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’
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’
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
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
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
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
B: Coleus Reddish Purple Leaf Plants
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
9- Dark chocolate Coleus
It is one of the popular dark purple houseplants that give an elegant view to your living space.
10- Coleus burgundy
C: Other Burgundy Leaf (Reddish Purple) Indoor Plant
11- Calathea Purple Rose
This cultivar of Calathea has variegated colour leaves from dark or light green to purple or reddish purple.
12- Coral Bells ‘Forever Purple’
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’
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
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, 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 previous post.
16- Purple Shamrock
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
As you can see in the above 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
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
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
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
This Cordyline has sword-like red to burgundy leaves. Some people mistake it for burgundy red varieties of Dracaena plants.
Conclusion
after reading this article, now you can identify your reddish-purple Leaf indoor plant. We showed you a collection of images of 21 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.
Elahe Rabiei
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.