These Plants with Colorful New Growth will add a new dimension to your house with their foliage that changes color with time!
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Plants with Colorful New Growth
1. Rubber Plant
Botanical Name: Ficus elastica ‘Red Ruby’
This beautiful rubber plant variety produces large dark green leaves densely variegated with purple, red, and white shades. The new growth develops in the lovely pink-red hue.
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2. Variegated Creeping Fig
Botanical Name: Ficus pumila
The young growth appears in a mosaic of hues from burgundy, then changes to copper, bronze and mature to mid-green.
3. Amelia’s Kaleidoscope Begonia
Botanical Name: Begonia ‘Amelia’s Kaleidoscope’
The new growth of this begonia variety offers a copper-bronze hue that becomes chartreuse-lime with maturity.
4. Corsair Sempervivum
Botanical Name: Sempervivum ‘Corsair’
This mound-forming small succulent offers clusters of medium-sized, prickly-leaf rosettes. New growth appears green before turning deep pink-red color with maturity.
5. Rosy Maidenhair Fern
Botanical Name: Adiantum tenerum ‘Scutum Roseum’
This beautiful evergreen fern shows off new growth in pink flushed rosy leaves. It grows up to a foot tall and has three-pinnate fronds.
6. Ti Plant
Botanical Name: Cordyline fruticosa
The new growth of this gorgeous houseplant emerges in a pink hue that turns dark red-burgundy variegated with red-pink streaks.
7. Butterfly Anthurium
Botanical Name: Anthurium papillilaminum
The new growth appears in charming violet-red color. Its heart-shaped leaves become gray-green with a red tinge.
8. Tricolor Fern
Botanical Name: Pteris quadriaurita tricolor
This fern features tender bronze and red new growth that takes a mid-green hue with purple stalks and midribs with time.
9. Solar Flare Begonia
Botanical Name: Begonia ‘Solar Flare’
This hybrid variety produces new growth in a red color that changes in orange-red foliage. If you want to maintain the color, keep it in bright indirect light.
10. Magnificum Anthurium
Botanical Name: Anthurium magnificum
The new growth has a brown-burgundy hue before it changes to green. The heart-shaped leaves have distinct cream-white veins with a velvety texture.
11. Philodendron Gigas
Botanical Name: Philodendron gigas
The dark green velvety foliage appears in copper hues with white veins at the initial stage. Its leaves look unusual with a large, droopy appearance.
12. Green Gold Begonia
Botanical Name: Begonia rex ‘Green Gold’
‘Green Gold’ features new growth in warm golden color with burgundy margins. The leaves turn silver with deep green veins.
13. Cinnamon Star
Botanical Name: Euphorbia pulcherrima ‘Cinnamon Star’
This coral version of poinsettia offers new growth on central bracts with a dark hue before turning pale. Grow it in indirect bright light.
14. Velvet Leaf Philodendron
Botanical Name: Philodendron micans
The velvety opalescent heart-shaped foliage has new growth in a range of hues from bronze to dark green with pink and purple highlights.
15. Christina Ficus
Botanical Name: Ficus ‘Cristina’
If you want to grow a plant that changes the color of its leaves in the most dramatic way, then this is it! The new foliage comes in fiery red-orange color and changes to green over time.
16. Rainbow Jade Plant
Botanical Name: Portulacaria afra ‘Rainbow’
New leaves of this cute plant come in the shade of maroon with red tips. If you want to make the foliage have a vivid hue, keep it in bright sunlight.
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