# Lavender

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**Rarity:** Rare  
**Inheritance:** Polygenic  
**Category:** Base color  
**Typical adult price:** $400 to $1,000

**Definition.** A Lavender crested gecko is a crested gecko whose ground color is an unusual purple-gray, seen most clearly when it is fired down.

Polygenic base color showing an unusual purple-gray tone, rare and sought-after.

Lavender is a sought-after polygenic base color showing a distinct purple-gray tone. Expression is strongest when fired down, fired-up lavenders often look more standard brown. Considered challenging to maintain across generations.

**Key features:**
- Unusual purple-gray base color, most visible fired down
- Challenging to maintain across generations
- Often paired with extreme harlequin for high-end visual impact

**Lookalikes and how to tell them apart:**
- Axanthic (https://geckinspect.com/MorphGuide/axanthic): An Axanthic has no yellow, red or cream at all; a Lavender's purple-gray base can still carry warm pattern.

**Often combined with:** Harlequin, Extreme Harlequin, Cream, Dalmatian, Pinstripe

**Current asking prices (Geck Inspect Price Index, 2026-10-06).** Asking prices on public crested gecko listings, converted to USD, not sale prices. Full dataset: https://geckinspect.com/data/price-index.json

| Market | Listings | 25th percentile | Median | 75th percentile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 243 | $160 | $300 | $450 |

_Source: Geck Inspect Morph Guide. Updated 2026-10-13. Cite https://geckinspect.com/MorphGuide/lavender_