What are variegated plants?

[AnonymousUSER]

what are variegated plants

[AnonymousUSER]

what are variegated plants

[applestar]

Variegated plants have genetic anomaly that causes parts of the foliage to lack green/chlorophyl pigment, resulting in splotches or streaks of white, ivory, yellow, or paler green. Variegation appears to be genetically recessive, but genetically true variegated plant can pass on the trait to its offspring (seeds).

Variegation may spontaneously appear as genetic sport/mutation in one part of a plant, but typically, this would not be passed onto the offspring (can be cloned from the anomalous portion). Some variegated plants can only be cloned by vegetative propagation.

[rainbowgardener]

A picture is worth a lot of words. This is a variegated dieffenbachia, because it has the light colored markings: