congratulations Margaret

is that the one you were the only bidder on

Richard

Thank you, Richard. There was another bidder and myself. He/she bid small amounts. I had a higher bid on it than I got it for, which was €9, plus postage.

It is so bright looking in the dark days.

That's stupendous Margaret! Looks variegated, with both hobbit and gollum style leaves, and maybe a finger too? Is it Legolas?

Daniel

its raining, very windy and generally dreary here right now as well.

Margaret

Did it have name by the seller?

Nice plant...Rina

Great purchase!

Congrats on getting the pics to load! Don't know why we get the problem I mentioned.

A bigger congrats on that find, it sure it a looker! Very nice as you say in this gloomy weather, that would brighten anyone's day for them, well done.hope it flourishes. Wonder why we don't get flowers so readily on Hobbits, Gollums and similar?

Gill UK

Very nice find!!! Enjoy!!

Thank you everyone, Daniel, Rina, Cardie, Gill, woodnative. It was sold as a variegated Gollum, but Gollum/Hobbit/Finger jades seem interchangeable on eBay. I don't know how many obvious Hobbits I have seen advertised there as Gollums. In this case the seller is a succulent grower himself so he was more knowledgeable.

To me it looks more Gollum, but I remember Christopher and others have said here that it is the type leaf that is in the majority that finally decides the name of this type of plant. Whatever it is, I think it's beautiful and I was lucky to find it.

You did great Margaret! I look forward to updates.

Thanks, Nancy. What did you do to Richard ! It's just as well he has that big glasshouse.

Score! Great price, too!

Josh

Lovley coloring, very good price seems like only yesterday it was fetching 50 $ US ( and higher)bids

Hi, for me it looks like gollum variegata. Congrats to the very cheap price ... did you buy it on ebay uk? I guess the reason for the cheap price is that it probably was not offered for international selling and thus was not visible for other potential bidders? I hope it will root well and grow well.

Ben

Thanks, Josh, Nomen and Ben. I bought it from Italy, actually, where I have got some lovely eBay plants. I didn't expect to win it.

Yes Ben, it was offered just inside Italy. Probably Margaret asked seller about international shipping method before bidding.

Well, not exactly, Martin. I did make sure he would send to Ireland, but I had bid already. Did you bid too, Martin? Most Italian sellers send to Ireland, it's easy because of the Euro. My jades have come from everywhere in Europe.

No Margaret, I didn't bid. But I was communicated with this seller. She is willing to exchange some cuttings in the spring.

But I was also surprised with low price. Congratulation to did good business. Please let us know the rooting progress.

BTW, the origin of your plant comes from one small italian nursery - according seller this nursery has a small/ medium plant (spontaneous variegated) from which are coming your cuttings.

Martin

Martin, are you sure we're talking about the same seller?

I hope so. Her name is Silvia (giovabaris). She was selling 2 cuttings and sold for 9 eur.

Yes, that's right, ,Martin. I didn't know seller was a woman, the name sounded masculine for some reason. How come you didn't bid? The second cutting was just a bunch of totally pale leaves in bad condition when the box arrived, so it was really just one cutting, but I expected that having studied the pictures before I bid. Why did you not bid, Martin? The other bidder just bid very low. I didn't expect to win - I was ill at the time - I returned to see how the auction went because eBay don't seem to notify any more, and to my surprise saw I had won.

The seller actually seems to mainly buy, haworthias and so forth.

I was ready to bid. I didn't like the second pure albino cutting and after communication with seller she promised to have nice cutting in spring and willing to exchange to some of my cutting in spring so I decided to leave it. And the world is small. On my surprise it was you. In the past we bid together the same plant with Laurent and Ben- arborescens media variegated.. :-)

I am curious whether your second pure albino cutting put some roots and what will be the next growing. Please inform.Martin

Only one of the cuttings was pure albino, the one I mentioned above, Martin. The one shown above is doing fine, thank goodness. It seems to be growing already. I realised I was bidding on just one cutting really. I was surprised the seller was selling a cutting with no chlorophyll.

You and Ben and Laurent bid on the same plant, a variegated Crassula arborescens? Who won? The only one of those I ever saw on eBay was in Australia, and to be honest it didn't look very healthy.

Absolutely beautiful!

Thanks indeed, Mike. I just wrote to you.

These 2 cuttings were selling.

And first time with arborescens won Laurent, then Ben got the second nice plant and I got the third plant with very pure variegation (today the plant is beautiful).

Martin

Martin, thanks for posting the original pictures and the story behind. Some years ago i was in contact with a person who also got a variegated gollum from Italy. Most likely it was the same original source. So maybe the variegated gollum sport occured several times at different place. My plant is from Japan and there should be also one clone that originates from the netherlands (nursery of Cok Grootscholten).

Marguerite i hope your cutting will develope some more green parts. From what i can see it looks very albino and only the older growth at the base has green parts. Maybe it would be good to remove the pure white leaves?

Ben

Martin, the top one looks like the one I sent you?

Mike do you have a picture of your "Legolas"-motherplant? Would be interesting to see how it looks now ...
Ben

Yes, I'd love to see your plant, Mike!

If I remember rightly, Glen's motherplant (from which Mike's and mine came) died last year....?

Josh

Mike,

Yours Legolas has more green.And Margaret's is gollum- variegated.

Here is one from you:

Is doing well, also has some new leaves.

Mike, do you provide some special care of your Legolas? I mean, when it produce too many albino leaves, do you remove them?

Yes. Ben. Did you sell that cutting and is it s cutting from the one you recieved a while back ? I have a story for you if so.

A actually Josh said it. I have Glenn a replacement cutting last fall. He's a good ma and I owed him

You are right, Ben, but no need for me to do it, three of the paler leaves fell off themselves today. I may well be left with the green centre piece yet. I'll hope for the best. I love hearing those stories about origins of these plants.

Since I love updates, how is your Rubra cutting from Christopher doing?

Mike, i have two small individuals of Legolas .... one from you and one from Glen. Addionally i have one gollum variegata from Japan that is different from the cultivar Legolas.

Looking forward to see your pictures and hear the story.

Ben

I will post some rubra pics and others later this week when i am back home ...

Nice plant Margaret.

If it's a spontaneous mutation of an italian plant it might look different from the japanese selection. Interesting.

My Legolas finally starts growing but my variegated Gollum still looks weak.

Lovely to see you, Oksana, and thank you.

Thank you, Laurent, we'll see how it goes. And that will be great, Ben, to see some of your plants.

This has been a great thread - I've learned a lot about these little variegates from you all. I hope my little Gollum survives, particularly now that I know how it came about, for which thanks again, Martin.

Margaret, congrats on this exclusive edition! These variegated plants are ever so delicate and vulnerable, I sincerely hope your cutting(s) root well, establish and grow well.

Thanks for all the resources exchanged - Ben/Martin/Mike, now I know who's ebay account to stalk/contact so I can get my hands on this ever elusive plant.

Many thanks, Bernard.

Margaret, how is doing your Gollum Variegata?

Martin

Hi Martin,

It is still alive, not growing much, but hopefully rooting. It lost all it pale leaves except for one which I removed, and is now in a nursery box in my kitchen window. It has four very light green leaves, not white, with a hint of variegation on one of the newer ones. We'll see how it goes, but thanks for enquiring. I hope you had a nice Christmas.

Just a technical point its name can't be golem variegata because Latin or latin-ized cultivar names are illegitimate.

We know which we mean, Todd, don't worry :)

I would love to see update on this plant too, if it is still going well!

So sorry, woodnative. It didn't make it. The white leaves started to die off one by one, so someone advised I remove them to ease stress on the plant. It didn't help and it faded away. I haven't looked for another as it's too sad when that happens - I prefer easier jades which are happy with me.

Ah that is a shame Marguerite. I know those variegated tube jades are hard to find and also a little temperamental. I think those white leaves and sections sap up too much energy on them, especially when they need energy to grow new roots. Maybe a greener, but still nicely variegated piece, will come along at some point.

woodnative, so sorry I only saw your post now. I came to look at pics of the deceased ! :)