variegation
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These are bushy plants that display a range of leaf colors, some with dramatic variegation.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2022
In summer, Miscanthus sinensis var. condensatus ‘Cosmopolitan’ arches tall in ribbons of white and green variegation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 5, 2018
But the variegation is part of Carballido’s point.
From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2017
But these shifts feel deliberate, like the clicking of a slide projector rather than the smooth variegation of a kaleidoscope, and the landscape always clears atop that steady pulse.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2016
At the meeting of the Association of Nurserymen in Chicago, last July, one of our prominent horticulturists described leaf variegation as a disease.