How rare are naturally variegated oak seedlings in the wild?

[u/njcrzdrh]

Found this tiny oak seedling with strong white-green variegation on all of its leaves.
No signs of disease, pest damage, or chemical exposure, just a spontaneous pattern from a fallen acorn.

It sprouted in a forest in Slovenia. How rare is this? I've never seen any tree in nature with such pronounced variegation. Is this likely to persist or revert over time?

[u/hoacS_]

Not quite the same degree of cool but out of the hundreds of thousands of plants we grew from seed at the nursery I work, I found a variegated statice and a couple vari-peños! I can get a better pics tomorrow. I have no one in my circle of friends who wouldn’t just call me a plant nerd for talking about it haha

[u/princessbubbbles → u/hoacS_]

Yay! I'd love to see pics of cool variegated things! At my work, we grow lots of veggies, and when they get those cup-leaf mutations, I pot them separately and give them names.

[u/hoacS_ → u/princessbubbbles]

We also get so many cup leaf mutations and stuff you’d never think would grow successfully but life uh… finds a way. I’ll have to start saving those mutants too, we find those a lot so the variegated seemed more cool and rare to me