Red Sister Ti Plant
Cordyline fruticosa ‘Red Sister’ · a red-leaf ti plant (cordyline)
Bold, glossy leaves in cherry red and hot pink that keep their colour all year, on an upright, tropical-looking shrub for shady entries and pots. Give it bright shade and steady moisture; it's a summer patio plant wherever frost comes, and it's toxic to cats, dogs and horses.
- Mature size
- 6 × 3 ft
- 1.8 × 0.9 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 10a–11b
- USDA
- Sun
- Part sun to full shade
- Water
- Medium
Red Sister Ti Plant at its mature size
A mature Red Sister Ti Plant grows to about 6 ft tall and 3 ft wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Armstrong Garden Centers, UF/IFAS Extension.
Through the year
What Red Sister Ti Plant looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · Year-round
Glossy cherry red and burgundy sword leaves, hot pink new leaves.
Growing Red Sister Ti Plant
- Grows well in
- The Southeast and California.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Privacy screen, hedge, small space, foundation planting, specimen, and shade garden
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- Papua New Guinea, Australia, and Western Pacific
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Red Sister Ti Plant, that’s about 3 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Red Sister Ti Plant in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other cordylines
Red Sister Ti PlantAll drawn to the same scale.