Plant in a cool part sun to semi-shady location and irrigate regularly. Cold hardy to around 25° F. This plant with its attractive foliage and very showy flowers makes an excellent potted specimen or can be used in a special spot in the garden.

Callisia warszewicziana was first collected in Guatemala but is reportedly also found in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Chiapas. The name for the genus is derived from the Greek words 'kallos' meaning "beauty" and 'lis' meaning "lily". The specific epithet honors the Russian Polish gardener and plant collector Józef Warszewicz Ritter von Rawicz ( 1812-1866) who accompanied the Belgian botanist Louis van Houtte on an expedition to Guatemala in 1845, where he collected many plants. He was a close friend of Carl David Bouché, who with fellow German botanist Karl Sigismund Kunth named this plant for him in 1848 as Tradescantia warszewicziana in Index Seminum in Horto Botanico Berolinensi. Warszewicz later became the chief gardener at the Krakow Botanical Garden. It was renamed Tripogandra warszewicziana in 1942 by Missouri Botanic Garden botanist Robert Woodson, then to Hadrodemas warszewicziana by Harold E. Moore of the of the L. H. Bailey Hortorium in 1962 and finally to its current name Callisia warszewicziana by Kew botanist David R. Hunt in 1983 in the article "New Names in Commelinaceae. American Commelinaceae: XI" in the journal Kew Bulletin Vol. 38: 132.

We have noted plants marketed with the cultivar name 'Safira' that appear to be the same as the species. We received our first stock plant of this beautiful species from Santa Barbara plantsman John Bleck as Hadrodemas warszewicziana and it was featured and sold at Exceptional Plant Auction in 2021at Ganna Walska Lotusland’s. We also grow the large bromeliad-like groundcover