Variegated Cactus

Variegated cactus for sale: plants whose tubercles or ribs carry sectors of cream or yellow where the tissue holds no chlorophyll. Variegation is rare in the wild because a pale sector feeds nothing, so a stable variegated plant depends on the green tissue around it, grows more slowly than its plain siblings, and is usually grafted elsewhere to keep it going. At rarecactus.com every variegated specimen we offer is seed grown, with a strong root system, photographed individually and sold as the exact plant shown. The listings here span the Ariocarpus fissuratus ‘Godzilla’ variegated forms and Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus var. elephantidens variegata; sold plants stay on the page so you can see what has passed through the collection. For the forms themselves, see Astrophytum asterias f. variegata and Gymnocalycium mihanovichii f. variegata in the encyclopedia.

Seed grownCultivated in our greenhouseExact specimen pictured