Cultivar · genus Ananas
Variegatus
Ananas comosus · ‘Variegatus’
Guide
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No cultivar-specific guide yet
Until someone writes one, this cultivar follows the Ananas comosus care below. If you grow ‘Variegatus’, a few honest paragraphs would give it its own voice.
Care recipe
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Bright, indirect
≈ every 14 days
Medium
16–30 °C
Well-draining, slightly acidic potting mix with added grit
root basal offsets in early summer
time-release fertilizer once or twice a year
Slow
cone-like clusters of purple flowers with reddish-yellow bracts in summer
Not yet documented
Toxicity is a species-level safety fact. This is where toxicity lives: every cultivar inherits it and none can override it.
Reference images
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PrimarySources: ai:claude-code
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