Oksana
Thank you for posting these photos and names! I was thinking of starting a thread asking for ppl who know to post such...great help!!!
I assume they are your plants, and as always - you grow them beautifuly.
Rina

Rina, thank you for your kind words.

'Beauty Return' isn't my plant, it's Ben's. And I couldn't root 'Mrs. Ippi' :(

Oksana.

Hi Oksana, thanks for this nice overview of different ovata variegates. Maybe we could add also the center variegated "Lemon and Lime" and the "Crosbys Compact Variegated" of Camellia.

Nr. 3, 5 and 6 in my eyes all look like Crassula ovata Variegata. However, maybe Nr.3 is "Alba Variegata" and 5 and 6 "Luteo Variegata" as discussed in another thread on Joshs plants. For me number 6 doesn't look like an obliqua ... but thats always relative :)

Ben

Three and five are definitely C. ovata variegata. I think that is about as precise as you can really get on those. There is too much variation on some variegated Jades in my opinion to get too precise, in my view. For example, on my C. ovata variegata, I see differences in the variegation and size and shape of the leaves from branch to branch, leaf to leaf.

By the way, just took this cutting, now I don't know what to do with it.

Christopher.

Thanks for the post! Now I know that mine is a "tricolor" obliqua. Which is what those cuttings are Nancy and Erica!!!

Ben,
I can't write you! Up a bit your mail!

Yes, Nr. 3, 5 and 6 are Crassula ovata Variegata but without exact cultivar names.
Is the 'Beauty Return' really the 'Lemon&Lime'?
I don't like the name 'Lemon&Lime' because too many plants have this cultivar name. Are the 'Alba Variegata' and 'Luteo Variegata' the cultivar names? No, they aren't. Cultivar name must not contain the word as "variegata".
But I agree №3 will named 'Alba' and №5 will named 'Luteo' without "variegata". So №6 will named 'Chanchu' or 'Chinese Toad' (with coin in mouth) :)
Ben, I don't consider Minor variegata here, because I have not them :( Only Ovata and Obliqua cultivars.

Christopher,

I'm sorry. I talked here about cultivars and no about leaf shape and size depending on the conditions. Your cutting of the 'Hummel's Ghost' is excellent and very interesting.

All the best

Oksana.

I noticed several new posts on eBay selling Crassula ovata 'Hummel's Sunset' variegata. Could they be those 'Akai' jades that have proliferated lately? They do look like them.

Hi Oksana, i don´t know if the center variegated "Lemon&Lime" is the same as "Return of Beauty" ... however, they look very similar. Actually "Lemon&Lime" is most often used for "ovata Variegata", at least when you look on ebay.

I personally consider Crassula ovata "Variegata" as a cultivar name as most people use this name for the plants in Nr.3, Nr. 5. I know actually it is not a valid name but most Jade names used here are no valid names in the strict sense :) Alba and Luteo should just indicate which kind of ovata Variegata is meant.

Oksana, what do you mean with "up a bit your mail"? ... can't you write mails to my private email address?

Ben

Ben,
read my homepage on Sibmama, please. Size limit is exceeded in your eMail. So all my letters come back.

Crassula ovata "Variegata" isn't cultivar name. It indicates only variegated leaf color is a chimeric nature.
A cultivar name consists of a botanical name (of a genus, species, infraspecific taxon, interspecific hybrid or intergeneric hybrid) followed by a cultivar epithet.

Oksana, I do know what you are talking about. Sorry you did not understand what I was talking about. I just think cultivar names are too easily thrown around when they are not warranted.

Christopher

Christopher,

Yes, perhaps I misunderstand you.
I personally observe the Solana and Tricolor for about 2 years and the Chanchu for about six months. And I understood they have different path of variegation formation. And it is unlikely they will be able under any conditions to be converted into each other. Therefore we can assume that the 'Solana' (and its pair 'Beauty Return'), 'Tricolor' ('Alba') and 'Luteo' ('Chanchu') are exactly different cultivars. Isn't it?

Of course, 'Hummel's Sunset' is not a сhimeric. But its pair 'Hummel's Ghost' is chimeric or variegata. Besides, they both are Ovata. Therefore I have included them in this list.
Oh, I hope I have translated correctly.
Oksana.

@Christopher- "By the way, just took this cutting, now I don't know what to do with it."

Well, rather than see it go to waste, I'm sure I could find something to do with it.

tj