Heloniopsis sp. - variegated

Chance variegation is usually a study in false hope with excitement and wonder quickly giving away to disappointment and a sense of betrayal by the universe when reversion takes hold. You find yourself wailing "Plants never change" to your tween bestie over the phone as you flail on your quilted coverlet, makeup streaking down your eyes. Meanwhile your friend at the nursery down the road got his smoking-hot variegated Hellebore to quit its philandering hybridizing ways to settle down into a profitable marriage with his tissue culture lab. Well for once its our chance for the meet-cute romantic comedy of our dreams! The thick stripes of creamy yellow on the leaves of this Heloniopsis have shown no signs of triggering our abandonment issues for years now and we are finally confident enough to introduce it to our parents...I mean customers.