I have that plant! Mine is like a small bonsai! Hope you find yours!!

Violet: Can understand some reverting back but which one in your pic is Legolas.

I tend to think the folks ( on this forum) who do have it, already have cutting(s) committed to people that they have a more personal friendship with.

Unless you already know someone who has it and will share a cutting from Legolas I would think five years is a reasonable time to wait.

Some here do have it but others will neither confirm or deny having it.

Lol! Well thank you for your honesty. I suppose I shall strike it from my mind!

Violet, I don't see any variegation in your pic?

Amanda, the variegated 'Gollum' is even more rare than 'Legolas' (variegated Finger Jade). Both are fairly slow-growing, which is why cuttings are so difficult to procure. I've had mine for several years and it's simply not ready to be pruned.

Glen Lord (gmaculata) might have some cuttings available in the future.

Josh

To add to what Josh said, the picture at the top of the thread is variegated gollum, which is a distinct plant from legolas. There is no such thing as "legolas gollum".

The popular monstrose jades are called by many names but there's three basic flavors - "hobbit", "gollum" and "fingers". They're also often mislabeled.

Hobbit has open leaves, with a slit all the way down and a bell like shape. Gollum has a small concave depression at the end of the leaves (looks like a suction cup). Fingers has neither, and the leaves look most like .. a finger :) Many plants show more than one leaf type, but each plant usually has a dominant form.

Each of the three - hobbit, gollum, fingers has a variegated version. Variegated fingers is called legolas. I don't know of special names for variegated hobbit and gollum.

Daniel

Daniel,

IIRC, the name is given to a hybrid/cultivar that's registered. If there's one that's variegated, it's just icing on the cake and not deserving of its own epithet.

IIRC Glen AKA gmaculata had found/discovered Legleos Pic of it that have been seen here Legleos appears as a C. gollum finger jade that had mutated to a variegated form and is able to keep / hold it's varigation with some foliage being near albino.

I don't know how many hoops a natural cultivate need to jump through to satisfy the masses but Legleos certainly sounds deserving.

Ha! Ok ignore my post and photo. As you can all tell by now, I am a gardening newbie. And until this moment have never heard of "vareigated".. Obviously mine is not that.

So what is vareigated?

Striped? (Lol, it can't be that simple, can it).. Hybrid with other plants so it's striped/mottled?

Either way, best of luck to you guys looking for it!

Violet Blackwould no problem and beautiful plant. 'Legolas' is a rare vareigeated form of this plant. Yes variegated is areas of usually white or yellow tissue, common in a lot of ornamentally cultivated plants. Those areas of the plant lack chlorophyll....the "food" making part of the plant.....so such plants can be a bit weaker or slower growing than their normal green relatives. Variegation can take many forms.......often it is on the leaf edge or leaf center which is usually relatively more stable in growth pattern, or it can be more random like the 'Legolas' above. All variegated can sport fully "albino" branches (which will not survive on their own" or reversions to all green (which usually have to be removed because they will overtake the whole plant). Now that you know you will notice variegates everywhere LOL. Now to get back on subject I would post a pic of my little 'Legolas'....but I sunburned it a bit when I put it out two weeks ago. Darn!

Very good information you guys, thank you!

Sunburned but will grow.

That's not bad sunburn at all! Mine looks much worse this time of year :-)

Josh

It looks very nice, not sunburned badly :)

Thank you for taking time out to teach me what variegated means, woodnative!!

its funny how all these names are kinda lord of the rings themed.. Legolas.. Gollum.. Hobbit... Haha.

I'm learning a lot. I have a jade that I think looks variegated but.. I'll not show a photo anymore because maybe it's not and just unhealthy haha!

Violet, the Lord of the Rings naming thing is intentional. There is also a variety found by Glen Lord, who named 'Legolas,' that is called 'Denethor.'

Josh

Ok I'm really super curious now. I have this succulent. What is it (I keep thinking Jade?) and... Is it variegated?? (If it is, is that rare or something?)

Violet yes variegated but that one is pretty common in cultivation and a nice plant. Portulacaria afra. Yes you can find an all green form too.

Violet, all throughout Asia (and much of the rest of the world), that succulent is wrongly labeled "Jade" or "Mini Jade," but it is not even in the same botanical family or order. As Woodnative said, it is called Portulacaria afra variegata, common name of Elephant's Food Bush.

Josh