What plant has red and yellow foliage? You will most likely find it among Coleus, Croton, and Caladium Plants. Hi, I’m Elahe a passionate horticultural consultant and a houseplant enthusiast. Welcome to my blog! Do you have an indoor plant with yellow and red leaves and are searching for its name? Or are you interested in adding a houseplant with a Fall feel to your house and looking through a gallery to choose the best? Keep reading!
Here, I listed almost all houseplants with red and yellow foliage. While we typically associate plants with green leaves some like I listed here feature vibrant hues such as red and yellow with little or no green. Adding them to your indoor decor brings a touch of fall to your home even in the summer! I love pairing them with green leaf plants, I think it blends the summer and fall aesthetics.
As a horticultural consultant, I understand that caring for these vibrant colourful plants requires identifying their specific needs, so it is essential to first identify your Houseplant carefully. You can do it easily by comparing your plant with the pictures provided below. Most of the colourful indoor plants belong to the Coleus, Croton and Caladium plants. To simplify it, I organized them into three categories:
- A: Coleus Plant with yellow and red leaves
- B: Croton Plant with yellow and red leaves
- C: Caladium Plant with yellow and red leaves
Please take a moment to compare your red-yellow houseplant with the below photos. Some of them can grow in both indoor and outdoor environments. If you are ready, let’s get going.
A: Coleus Plant With Yellow And Red Leaves
Coleus are one of the most popular indoor plants with variegated colour leaves. They have more than 40 varieties and every variety has its exclusive color combination. In the following, you can find 5 varieties of Coleus plant with yellow and red leaves. Please spot their pictures and compare them to your indoor plant with yellow and red leaves.
If you have a house plant with green red yellow leaves too, read “17 house plants red yellow green leaves”.
1- Trusty Rusty Coleus plant with yellow-red leaves
As you can see in the following picture this variety of Coleus has large red leaves with golden-yellow marriage. The under of leaves is often yellow too which causes you to spot the yellow color as much as red.
2- Wizard Scarlet Coleus plant with yellow-red leaves
It is a low-laying variety of Coleus plant that has red leaves with very light green or yellow margins. Hence you can usually find it as a plant with red-yellow leaves.
3- Le Freak Coleus plant with yellow-red leaves
It is another variety of Coleus plant with red-yellow leaves. Its leaves are red in the centre with a golden margin. However, the character that highlights this variety from other red and yellow leaves Coleus is the shape of the leaves. Its leaves are longer than other varieties with three lobes and the central lobe is longer than two side lobes.
4- Henna Coleus plant with yellow-red leaves
You may be surprised if you find out it is a variety of Coleus plants. Hanna is an unusual variety of Coleus in terms of the shape of its leaves. Henna has small red and yellow leaves with a jagged or spiky edge. Its leaves are yellow in the centre with a red edge, although if you put it in more light, you will spot more red colour on its leaves. The underside of Henna leaves is usually red too.
5- Rustic Orange Coleus plant with yellow red orange leaves
You spot this variety of Coleus with orange/red leaves with yellow to golden margins. Its leaves are almost pointed in tips.
6- ColorBlaze Pineapple Brandy Coleus plant with yellow-red leaves
It has deeply jagged and bright yellow leaves with red margins. In addition, it has red stems too.
B: Croton Plant With Yellow And Red Leaves
Croton plants (Codiaeum variegatum) have a lot of varieties with variegated colour combination leaves. In various cultivars, you may find two or more colours in every leaf. They are very gorgeous indoor plants. In the following, we will show you a variety that has red and yellow leaves.
7-Red Iceton Croton with yellow-red leaves
This variety of Croton has yellow leaves with a shade of red to pink colour. In young leaves, you may spot the green colour too.
C: Caladium Plant With Yellow And Red Leaves
Caladiums are indoor and outdoor plants with more than 90 varieties. the different varieties of Caladium present a huge collection of various colour combinations that are exclusive. In the following, we will show you a cultivar of the Caladium plant with yellow and red leaves.
8- New Wave Caladium plant with yellow-red leaves
New wave Caladium is a low-growing variety that has red to bronze leaves with lemon-green to yellow margins.
Conclusion
Most plants with red and yellow leaves belong to the Coleus, Croton and Caladium plants. In this article, we showed you the image of these plants and tried to help you to identify your indoor plant with red and yellow leaves by picture. Did you find your plant among them? what was its name? which one is more interesting for you? please tell me in the comments.
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.