Indoor Plants with Rainbow Foliage

1. Cordyline Bolero

Botanical Name: Cordyline fruticosa ‘Waihee Rainbow’

This gorgeous variety offers splash colors, and its glossy leaves feature a fusion of yellow, green, bright red, and pink tones.

2. Bush on Fire Croton

Botanical Name: Codiaeum Variegatum ‘Bush on Fire Croton’

The ‘Bush on Fire Croton’ has a blend of red, green, pink, yellow. ‘Mammy’ is another colorful cultivar with large glossy leaves in the shades of purple, green, red, and bright yellow.

3. Ginny Galaxy

Botanical Name: Begonia ‘Ginny Galaxy’

Begonia offers many multicolored varieties. ‘Salsa’ has dark green leaves splashed in pink color with a touch of silver and burgundy red variegation.

4. Jacob’s Coat

Botanical Name: Acalypha wilkesiana

This amazing houseplant offers multicolored foliage in shades of green, white, red, and pink. ‘Tiki Peach Whirl’ offers orange and peach leaves, whereas ‘Mosaica’ features peach, pink, purple, and green foliage.

5. Rose Painted Calathea

Botanical Name: Calathea roseopicta ‘Princess Jessie’

This calathea variety offers dark green, rose, and ivory shades on broad striped leaves, which gives it a very striking and bold look.

6. Caladium

Botanical Name: Caladium

Caladium offers 100s of cultivars with colorful midribs, diverse shapes and margins, and eye-catching variegation.

Try ‘Carolyn Whorton’ with green margins, pink splotches, and red veins. ‘Freida Hemple’ is also a nice choice with large leaves, dark red center, green margins, and smudges.

7. Aglaonema

Botanical Name: Aglaonema commutatum

Aglaonema offers a range of colorful rainbow-like foliage. You can grow ‘Siam Aurora’ with green leaves and bold pink margins or ‘Anyanmanee’, which has spotted foliage with dusty pink spots on dark green wide leaves.

8. Red Star

Botanical Name: Fittonia ‘Red Star’

Nerve plant is an excellent choice for those people who want to bring colors to their home decor. Go for ‘Red star,’ which has green leaves artistically striped in deep red-pink veins, or ‘Juanita’ with large green leaves, red veins, and pink-green tint.

9. Moses-in-the-Cradle

Botanical Name: Tradescantia spathacea

Also known as the Boat lily and Oyster plant, it forms a rosette of sword-like, narrow, spiral-shaped dark green leaves with pink margins, creamy-white streaks, and purple undersides. The white flowers are enclosed with purple bracts hence the name.

10. Friendship Plant

Botanical Name: Billbergia ‘Hallelujah’

This stunning plant from the Bromeliaceae family produces upright red-green leaves splashed in white dots, which can brighten up any dull area with its colors.

11. Stromanthe Tricolor

Botanical Name: Stromanthe sanguinea ‘Tricolor’

The slender leaves of this plant have white variegation with shades of light pink or peach. It makes for a wonderful centerpiece!

12. Rainbow Festive Dance

Botanical Name: Solenostemon scutellarioides ‘Rainbow Festive Dance’

This exquisite coleus variety has rich bronze or chocolate-brown leaves with a fiery orange or maroon center and light green edges.

13. Polka Dot Plant

Botanical Name: Hypoestes phyllostachya

Its pretty pink leaves are embellished with dark green patches. The vibrancy of foliage becomes more intense under the morning sunlight. One more colorful variety, ‘Carmina,’ comes in purple and a scarlet hue.

14. Rainbow Peperomia

Botanical Name: Peperomia clusiifolia ‘Rainbow’

This compact houseplant with slender leaves displays a magnificent combination of green and cream, flushed with a light shade of pink.

15. Wild Rabbit

Botanical Name: Neoregelia ‘Wild Rabbit’

With rounded foliage at the ends, this plant stands out with its light green leaves and red banding. The white variegation compliments its open rosette shape.

16. Tornado Rex Begonia

Botanical Name: Begonia rex ‘Tornado’

This colorful variety displays dark green leaves accented with a spray of silver, bronze, and deep purple shades.

17. Kalanchoe Humilis

Botanical Name: Kalanchoe humilis

This colorful cultivar showcases pale green egg-shaped foliage patterned with maroon or purple streaks on a branched, woody base.

18. Pink Rubber Plant

Botanical Name: Ficus elastica ‘Tineke’

This striking indoor plant features yellow, pink, beige, or red spots on thick, shiny leaves. Some varieties display a blend of all four shades and offer a rainbow-like effect!

19. Rainbow Bush Jade Plant

Botanical Name: Portulacaria afra variegata ‘Rainbow Bush’