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Nov 20, 2023 1:06 PM CST
Name: kathy
Michigan (Zone 4b)
near St. Clair MI
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Zinnias
Rare variegated zinnia foliage revealed in my garden two years ago.
Saved seeds.
Last year I shared seeds with @keithp2012 & we both confirmed the seeds produce varigated leaves.
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Nov 20, 2023 2:31 PM CST
Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Greenhouse Tropicals
Spathiphyllum 'Domino'
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Nov 25, 2023 9:28 AM CST
Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Greenhouse Tropicals
Very juvenile Variegated Monstera lechleriana
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Nov 29, 2023 9:57 AM CST
Name: kathy
Michigan (Zone 4b)
near St. Clair MI
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Zinnias
Gina, nice, you have gotten your money's worth - white AND cream variations.
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Nov 29, 2023 10:20 AM CST
Name: Lin Vosbury
Sebastian, Florida (Zone 10a)

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Wow Gina, that is really nice, I love the white and cream variegation! I had no idea that there was a variegated form of Monstera lechleriana and you should upload your photo to the database because others may not be aware of it either.
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Nov 29, 2023 1:15 PM CST
Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Greenhouse Tropicals
done Lin!
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Mar 21, 2024 1:49 AM CST
Name: Chelsea Olsen
San Francisco (Zone 10b)
Cat Lover Houseplants
I am obsessed with variegation! I asked my go to garden center guy about albo monstera and he told me it was actually a disease and we had a little joke about it placing variegated plants in the same room with some Marvin Gaye and dimmed lights might result in variegation....aaaaanyway. love them!!

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Basically if it's variegated.....I want it
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Mar 21, 2024 4:33 AM CST
Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Greenhouse Tropicals
The variegation in Monstera deliciosa albo-variegata isn't a from a 'disease'. The variegation is chimeric and arises from a genetic mutation that causes a loss of chlorophyll production in one or more cell tissue layers in the meristem tissue. That translates out through the leave as variegation.
Unlike Monstera deliciosa Thai Constellation, which is considered a 'stable' variegation pattern, albo-variegata is extremely UNstable and can result in reversion to either a completely green plant or a total reversion to a completely white plant, the difference being the totally green plant will survive, and the totally white one will not.
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Mar 21, 2024 4:59 AM CST
Name: Chelsea Olsen
San Francisco (Zone 10b)
Cat Lover Houseplants
Gina1960 said: The variegation in Monstera deliciosa albo-variegata isn't a from a 'disease'. The variegation is chimeric and arises from a genetic mutation that causes a loss of chlorophyll production in one or more cell tissue layers in the meristem tissue. That translates out through the leave as variegation.
Unlike Monstera deliciosa Thai Constellation, which is considered a 'stable' variegation pattern, albo-variegata is extremely UNstable and can result in reversion to either a completely green plant or a total reversion to a completely white plant, the difference being the totally green plant will survive, and the totally white one will not.
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I suppose I was thinking of disease more in the human sense...where certain diseases are caused by genetic mutations. But I'm no scientist. I appreciate your input
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Mar 21, 2024 5:10 AM CST
Name: Gina
Florida (Zone 9a)
Tropical plant collector 40 years
Aroids Region: Florida Greenhouse Tropicals
Some variegation can be cause by viruses. Some viruses are even deliberately introduced into plants to CAUSE variegation. Some are caused by other things. The chimeric mutation is a genetic mutation. The degree of variegation depends on the penetrance of the cell layers and the area of cell layers affected by the mutation that causes chlorophyll non-production. If only a few cell layers are affected there will be very sparse variegation. If an area of many cell layers are affected and the penetration goes through more layers of cells, the variegation will be much more. And if the mutation mutates again and disappears, so does the variegation.
The notion persists among aroid growers that more light = more and better variegation. This is only true for plants with a type of variegation known as transient, or pass through. Like Philodendron Florida Ghost. the leaf starts white and 'passes through' into green. Better light helps that. But most variegated plants do not respond to 'better light' by producing 'better variegation'.
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Mar 21, 2024 12:51 PM CST
Name: Lin Vosbury
Sebastian, Florida (Zone 10a)

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Gina, I sure appreciate your wealth of knowledge regarding plants in the Araceae family! I hope you will considering adding your helpful comment regarding variegation at the bottom of the database page for White Variegated Monstera (Monstera deliciosa 'Albovariegata')
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