Lithops Pleiospilos nelli Schwantes

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Origin and Habitat: South Africa ( Little Karoo on the border of the Eastern and Western Cape to the southern-parts of the Great Karoo in the Northern Cape)
Habitat: Plants occur in shale or sandstone areas in areas where light is usually bright and unpolluted. The annual rainfall for the distribution area for these plants is between 150mm and 300mm.

 

Common Names include:
ENGLISH: Stone Plant, Liver Plant, Split Rock Plant
AFRIKAANS (Afrikaans): kwaggavy, kwaggavygie

 

Description: Pleiospilos nelii is a small small nearly spherical succulent vaguely reminding for a Lithops and looking like a cracked rock (hence the common name)
Habit: It is a stemless, perennial, leaf succulent. Mostly there will just be one head, but very old plants will form two and eventually more heads.
Body: The body of the plant consists of 2 or 4 globe shaped leaves, fused at the base that naturally sit above the surface of the soil and can grow to about a height of 5–8 cm and about 10 cm across. The leaves have a deep fissure in the middle and are usually grey green to brownish in colour with many conspicuous raised dark dots scattered over the whole surface. The plant produces a new pair of leaves from within the old one each year, much the same as Lithops and Conophytum do.
Flowers: Large daisy-like, fragrant whit a distinct smell of coconut. Considering the size of the plant they are extremely large (up to 6-7,5 cm across), and have a great many petals and they are yellow to coppery-orange, seldom white or pinkish, in colour with a paler throat. They are solitary or in clusters borne on short pedicels.
Blooming season: Usually flowers in early spring after the winter dormancy period, although some plants can flower in autumn like a Lithops, depending on how they are grown. The blooms open in mid-afternoon and close just after sunset.
Remarks: Sometimes Pleiospilos will even be labelled as a Lithops, but it isn't the same. There are three immediate visual differences: P. nelii does not grow buried to its neck in the ground; it is bigger than any Lithops and will produce multiple flowers at once, something that Lithops never do.

Pleiospilos nelii (llifle.com)