If you like houseplants with different leaves, then here are some interesting Indoor Plants with Fanciful Cut Foliage that you will surely LOVE!
These Indoor Plants with Fanciful Cut Foliage are the perfect way to add character to your rooms with other colorful or patterned houseplants!
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Indoor Plants with Fanciful Cut Foliage
1. Monstera
Botanical Name: Monstera deliciosa
The large glossy deep green leaves have a distinct cut and perforated, whereas the young foliage is small and uncut. You can grow monstera in water as well.
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2. Stained Glassworks Kiwi Fern
Botanical Name: Solenostemon scutellarioides ‘Kiwi Fern’
Kiwi fern shows off burgundy and plum narrow ruffled foliage with gold margins and fanciful cut. This variety can tolerate the sun very well.
3. Fruit Salad Plant
Botanical Name: Monstera ‘Thai Constellation’
This beautiful variety offers large variegated white-green leaves with prominent cuts. The contrasting shades of green with splashes of white are eye-catching!
4. Xanadu
Botanical Name: Thaumatophyllum xanadu
‘Xanadu’ is a compact evergreen shrub with glossy deep green attractive multi-lobed leaves. It prefers full sun to semi-shade.
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5. Krauss’ Spikemoss
Botanical Name: Selaginella kraussiana
Native to the Azores and eastern Africa, it has elliptical shiny green small leaves with a papery texture on red-brown stringy branched stems. It prefers bright shade and rich, acidic soil.
6. Swiss Cheese Plant
Botanical Name: Monstera adansonii
The beautiful ornamental heart-shaped leaves are artistically pierced and have a vine-like tendency to climb if it finds support. It grows best in indirect light.
7. Tree Philodendron
Botanical Name: Philodendron selloum
This beautiful Philodendron variety has dark green, glossy, large, and deeply lobed leaves. It grows well in bright indirect light.
Check out our article on growing Philodendron here
8. Snowflake Aralia
Botanical Name: Trevesia palmata
‘Snowflake Aralia’ has no side branches. The entire plant is crowned with long-stalked 1-2 feet wide, deeply lobed, glossy green, and deeply cut leaves.
Have a look at the beautiful pictures of aralia houseplants here
9. Saw Palmetto Palm
Botanical Name: Serenoa repens
The blue-green leaves of this palm have multiple fine cuts from the upper side. It performs well in bright indoor lights and is very easy to maintain.
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10. Angelica
Botanical Name: Polyscias filicifolia
This shrub has a thick trunk and oval or rounded cut leaves with pointy edges. It is usually used to form bonsai. The plant can grow up to 2-3 feet.
11. Variegated Ming Aralia
Botanical Name: Polyscias fruticosa ‘Variegata’
The compound lobed foliage grows in a light green shade and turns deep green with beautiful white variegation. It can grow up to 6 feet tall with 3 feet spread indoors.
12. Furry Feather
Botanical Name: Calathea rufibarba
Also popular as velvet calathea, the lance-shaped leaves have curved edges and purple undersides on long burgundy stems.
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13. Variegated Monstera
Botanical Name: Monstera borsigiana ‘albo variegata’
‘Albo variegata’ features variegated leaves in bright shades of pure white and deep green with fanciful cuts. It is a great display plant for any room!
14. Spider’s Web
Botanical Name: Fatsia japonica ‘Spider’s Web’
The densely patterned white-green leaves possess prominent cuts, and their variegation changes according to the season and age of the plant.
15. Needlepoint Ivy
Botanical Name: Hedera helix ‘Needlepoint’
‘Needlepoint’ offers fanciful and elegant dark green leaves with 3 or 5 pointed and slender lobes. It looks beautiful in small pots and hanging planters.
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16. Dick’s Pink
Botanical Name: Echeveria ‘Dick’s Pink’
‘Dick’s Pink’ is a charming succulent with a rosette displaying blue to purple-grey with contrasting red ruffled edges that look appealing!
