Discover 13 Most Colorful Snake Plant Varieties adorned with intricate patterns and shades. Some will even surprise you!
Sansevierias, or now called Dracaenas, are probably the easiest plants to grow indoors. Some people complain that their common types look boring and colorless. Well, if you are one of them and are looking for Colorful Snake Plant Varieties for your collection, our list won’t disappoint you!
Most Colorful Snake Plant Varieties
1. Cleopatra
Botanical Name: Sansevieria kirkii “Cleopatra”
The first plant on this list has the most attractive foliage patterns, making it a colorful addition.
It has remarkable crisscross dark green strokes distributed randomly all over. Interestingly, there is also a beautiful reddish-brown outline on the edges, adding more to its beauty!
2. Jaboa
Botanical Name: Sanseveria trifasciata ‘Jaboa’
It is a simple yet exciting cultivar with slightly broader foliage that gets very tall and tends to fan out in clusters as it matures. The dark green leaves are covered with a patchy pattern of lighter shades of green, and then a pink-red line outlines the borders to make them bright and colorful.
3. Patula
Botanical Name: Sansevieria ‘Patula’
The Patula Snake plant displays a charm of lime green shades with a variegation of dark green all over its cylindrical foliage. Due to its short and compact growing nature, it is a good option for placing on small spaces like tabletops and mini wall shelves.
4. Blue Sansevieria
Botanical Name: Sansevieria ehrenbergii ‘Blue’
‘Blue Sansevieria’ is another unique variety with a tone of blue hues throughout its groovy textured foliage with sharp, pointy tips and white-brown margins. Interestingly, the foliage fans out where two leaves are aligned opposite one another in rows!
5. Black Gold Snake Plant
Botanical Name: Sansevieria trifasciata ‘Black Gold’
This variety gives the illusion of black color with its intense dark green foliage with a distinctly bold, golden-yellow outline, hence the name ‘Black Gold.’
It is a more unusual type that is most commonly unavailable or difficult to find! So, if you have this black beauty snake plant, take care of it and wait for its pups to appear.
6. Sansevieria ‘Silver Queen’
Botanical Name: Sansevieria trifasciata ‘Silver Queen’
Sanseveria Silver Queen is a hybrid created to display its gorgeous silver colorations on its long and narrow sword-shaped foliage with deep green edges. The new delicate foliage appears in a pretty silvery-white shade and gradually develops to a silvery-light green shade as it attains maturity. It is pretty interesting to watch it grow!
7. Sansevieria ‘Bantel’s sensation’
Botanical Name: Sansevieria trifasciata ‘Bantel’s Sensation’
If you have a collection of tall upright plants, this cultivar will be an excellent addition to it! Surprisingly, this variety can grow up to 32 inches (2.5 feet) tall and gracefully flaunts the faint white lines that run at the border of its sleek foliage, this one is one of our favorites and must have in any snake plant collection.
8. Sansevieria ‘Silver Flame’
Botanical Name: Sansevieria ‘Silver Flame’
‘Silver Flame’ originates from Africa; this snake plant variety has remarkable silvery-white patterns speckled along the borders of its broad and sculpted foliage. Unlike many other varieties that grow tall and upright, this beauty remains compact, much suited for tabletops and shelves.
9. ‘Coppertone’
Botanical Name: Sansevieria kirkii ‘Coppertone’
This hybrid variety showcases a playful yet vintage appearance with its copper-hued leaves with green bands and wavy margins. However, the real showstopper is its rare flower that looks more beautiful than other snake plant cultivars.
If you want this plant to look best, make sure to grow it in a bright location, or else the variegations might gradually disappear in low-light conditions.
10. Star Sansevieria
Botanical Name: Sansevieria kirkii ‘Star Sansevieria’
The Star Sansevieria features a grayish-green tone with some definite silver or white patches randomly distributed on its foliage. Moreover, it produces white flowers that bloom on a long stalk with a misty fragrance. Look at some more snake plant varieties that flower.
11. Francisii
Botanical Name: Sansevieria trifasciata ‘Francisii’
This variety displays bright yellow or light green marks and patterns on its dark green, cylindrical foliage. If you keep it in a dark spot or don’t get enough bright light, the variegations will gradually transform to a greener shade; there is also a variegated version, which looks more colorful.
12. Black Jack
Botanical Name: Sansevieria trifasciata ‘Black Jack’
Black Jack Snake plants feature darker shades of green in the broad foliage that again beautifully contrast with the off-white or pale patches at the edges or rarely at the middle!
The foliage grows in a rosette pattern with upright, tall leaves, making it a showy windowsill piece.
13. Black Dragon
Botanical Name: Sansevieria trifasciata ‘Black Dragon’
Saving the boldest one on the list for the last, this variety is true to its name! This gorgeous black beauty stands out for its glossy, deep green leaves with white-green borders and compact form.
Place it in a bright spot to enhance the coloration for an intense hue on the leaves.
