Cordyline fruticosa 'Florica Red' - Florica Red Hawaiian Ti Plant

This colorful variety features tomato red and dark green striped leaves that develop burgundy-purple shades as they mature; spectacular when massed on the landscape; perfect for adding a lush, tropical look to patio borders

Height: 4 feet. Spread: 4 feet. Sun: full sun to partial shade. Hardiness zone: (annual).

Ornamental features

Florica Red Hawaiian Ti Plant is primarily valued in the landscape or garden for its ornamental upright and spreading habit of growth. Its attractive large glossy sword-like leaves emerge coral-pink in spring, turning dark green in color with showy tomato-orange variegation and tinges of plum purple the rest of the year.

Landscape

Florica Red Hawaiian Ti Plant is an open multi-stemmed evergreen tropical plant with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its relatively coarse texture can be used to stand it apart from other garden plants with finer foliage.

This plant will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and should never be pruned except to remove any dieback, as it tends not to take pruning well. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Recommended for: Accent, Mass Planting, Hedges/Screening, General Garden Use, Container Planting.

Planting and growing

This plant is native to the tropics and prefers growing in moist environments with evenly warm conditions all year round. In our climate, it is usually grown as an outdoor annual in the garden or in a container. If you want it to survive the winter, it can be brought in to the house and provided with special care, and then returned to the garden the following season. In its preferred tropical habitat, it can grow to be around 4 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 4 feet. However, when grown as an annual or when overwintered indoors, it can be expected to perform differently, and its exact height and spread will depend on many factors; you may wish to consult with our experts as to how it might perform in your specific application and growing conditions.

This plant does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. This plant does not require much in the way of fertilizing once established. It is not particular as to soil type or pH, and is able to handle environmental salt. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.

Photo courtesy of NetPS Plant Finder.