What is the difference between variegated white and variegated yellow Cotyledon tomentosa? A detailed explanation of the latest identification methods

There are currently three main types of the succulent Cotyledon tomentosa: one is the original-color plant, whose entire leaves are a tender green, which can be called the green bear's paw; the other two actually arose mainly through variegation mutations:

one is a leaf bearing some white patches, which we can call the white-variegated bear's paw; the other is a leaf bearing some yellow patches, which we can call the yellow-variegated bear's paw. So, how do we tell the white-variegated and yellow-variegated bear's paw apart? In fact, this is very easy to distinguish, and below the editor will explain the identification methods for these two variegation-mutated bear's paws.

The green bear's paw is its original color, and it is very easy to tell apart here, simply by seeing that the leaves are all green with no patches of other colors, and it can be identified. The more troublesome part is how to distinguish the white variegation and yellow variegation of the bear's paw.

Original-color bear's paw

Yellow bear's paw

White bear's paw

Through the comparison of the images above, we find: in fact, we can distinguish these two newly derived varieties by judging the position of the variegation color, namely:

Usually, for the yellow-variegated bear's paw, its variegation is in the middle, that is, the slightly yellow patches are in the middle part of the leaf, slightly translucent, and the leaf edges are mostly green; for the white-variegated bear's paw, its variegation is on both sides of a leaf, that is, the slightly white patches are at the leaf edges, with green in the middle, though sometimes the entire leaf also turns white, with the variegation more complete.

Through the above identification methods, we can very well identify whether the bear's paw is white-variegated or yellow-variegated.