Want plants with a metallic hue in your home? Here are 19 exotic Bronze Leaf Houseplants that you can grow for an elegant look.
If you want to introduce a metallic hue indoors, then you can do so by growing Bronze Leaf Houseplants. They add a subtle touch of shine and look charming.
Bronze Leaf Houseplants
The plants in this list do not have their entire foliage in bronze color. Some have a light tint and hue of that shade, along with other colors.
1. Tornado Rex Begonia
Botanical Name: Begonia rex ‘Tornado’
This exotic variety offers dark green foliage textured in bronze, silver, and deep purple spots making it one of the best-looking begonias.
2. Norfolk Friendship Plant
Botanical Name: Pilea spruceana ‘Norfolk’
Also known as angel wings, this pretty houseplant features oval, puckered, dark-green leaves with bronze hue. It needs bright indirect light and high humidity to stay indoors.
3. Petra Croton
Botanical Name: Codiaeum variegatum ‘Petra’
This beautiful croton variety displays wide large foliage in the shades of bronze, yellow, green, and burgundy red. It thrives best in a bright location.
4. Berries N’ Burgundy
Botanical Name: Caladium ‘Berries N’ Burgundy’
This sun-loving multicolor variety has foliage with exquisite bronze background having a pink-white center adorned in bright pink primary veins.
5. Duarten Rex Begonia
Botanical Name: Begonia rex ‘Duarten’
‘Duarten’ displays pointed foliage in shades of bronze and silver. The leaves are veined and stippled, which gives it an elegant appearance.
6. Golden Sedum
Botanical Name: Sedum adolphi ‘Golden Glow’
This attractive sedum variety features yellow-green foliage that turns into a beautiful red-bronze shade when exposed to the sun.
7. Magnificent Croton
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Botanical Name: Codiaeum variegatum ‘Magnificent’
‘Magnificent’ offers large foliage textured with orange, bronze, yellow, pink, and red colors. It can reach a height of 3-4 feet indoors and does well in both full sun to partial shade.
8. Dwarf Velvet Elephant Ear
Botanical Name: Kalanchoe beharensis ‘Brown Dwarf’
This variety is also known as Kalanchoe beharensis ‘Nana.’ It has hairy golden-bronze or white pubescent leaves that look fantastic in sun.
9. Cryptyantus
Botanical Name: Bromeliad ‘Cryptanthus’
Popular for star-shaped leaves, this variety is related to terrestrial bromeliads. The foliage has bronze, brown, green, red, and pink hues.
10. Begonia Exotica
Botanical Name: Begonia brevirimosa ‘Exotica’
Just as the name suggests, it has exotic large metallic foliage with bright pink variegation on the bronze-green background. It performs well in bright light.
11. Big Red Bronze Leaf
Botanical Name: Begonia ‘Big Red Bronze Leaf’
This begonia produces beautiful red flowers with dark green foliage having a bronze tint. It does well in both bright sun and partial shade.
12. Bronze Medal
Botanical Name: Aeonium ‘Bronze Medal’
This exceptional aeonium hybrid forms a compact medallion-like rosette. The red leaves take a dark bronze hue in strong light exposure.
13. Bronze Graptosedum
Botanical Name: Graptosedum ‘Bronze’
This cute and small succulent has maroon, pink, and bronze foliage. It stays compact and looks cute in small pots. Just expose it to a lot of sunlight.
14. Burnished Bronze
Botanical Name: Heucherella ‘Burnished Bronze’
This intergeneric hybrid between Heuchera and Tiarella produces a compact, basal mound of rounded, large, lobed red leaves with a bronze tint. It looks great in hanging baskets.
15. Super-Fine Rainbow Festive Dance
Botanical Name: ‘Super-Fine Rainbow Festive Dance’ Coleus
The rich bronze foliage of this pretty coleus variety displays a fiery orange center with green borders. This coleus can be grown in both pots or garden beds.
16. Chocolate Caricature Jamaican Croton
Botanical Name: Codiaeum variegatum ‘Chocolate Caricature Jamaican’
This croton shows off a distinct set of shades in dark green chocolate-hued leaves and subtle hints of bronze and pastel pink.
17. Fred Ives
Botanical Name: Graptoveria ‘Fred Ives’
The fleshy waxy foliage reflects a striking bronze-purple tint when placed in full sun.
18. Autumn Fern
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Botanical Name: Dryopteris erythrosora
This popular fern offers glossy green fronds flushed in a bronze-orange hue as they develop which also gives it a common seasonal name.
19. Northern Lights Begonia
Botanical Name: Begonia ‘Northern Lights’
Northern lights display a beautiful bunch of tightly packed crinkled leaves that carry a light sheen of bronze with other colors. It is one of the best plants for coffee tables.