Lithops meyeri L. Bolus

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Lithops are also known as living stones, flowering stones or living rocks and they are real mimicry plants. They are beautiful succulent type plants of small size mostly around 1cm diameter but could be larger. Seeds of these plants are very very small

Lithops meyeri ‘Hammeruby’ C272A [RARE] / 10 seeds (Living Stones) - UnusualSeeds

Lithops meyeri C272A TL: 45 km NNE of Port Nolloth, South Africa cv. Hammeruby D.T.Cole

Lithops meyeri L. Bolus

Origin and Habitat: Endemic to a small area in the Richtersveld, to the north and north-west of Lekkersing. South Africa. TL: Namaqualand: Richtersveld, Brakfontein'
Habitat: Grow in among small quartzite stones. Colours of the background white, with some yellow-brown, brown and black. it is a quartz lover and will always be found growing either on big outcrops of quartz or more commonly on quartz plains where the quartz pebbles protect the plants from the blazing summer sun by reflecting a lot of the light and heat. It closely resembles the white quartz crystalline rubble of its habitat. In times of drought the plants shrivel and are almost invisible, as they get covered with fine wind-blown sand. After rain, however, they absorb water and become fat and turgid.

Synonyms:

• Lithops meyeri L. Bolus

Description: Lithops meyeriSN|13895]]SN|13895]] is easily recognizable for its almost uniform milky-grey or pale grey-green colour and for the dichotomous leaves that tend to be more spread apart, even when new leaves not growing in. It is a medium species, up to 35 X 24 mm, usually about 27 X 18 mm with up to 5 or more heads (mostly 2-4).
Cole numbers: C212, C272, C273.
Bodies (paired leaves): Characteristically bicuneate, the lobes are disjunct with a deep fissure and distinctly divergent. Profile opaque smooth.
Faces: The top surface is flat to somewhat convex and usually somewhat elevated, often with one side of the face lower than the other. Face elongated elliptic, sometimes slightly reniform; lobes more or less equal. Windows cloudy and only obscurely perceptible. Profile opaque, or occasionally very obscurely transluscent; smooth. Margins indistinctly suffused with somehow lighter colour. Channels, island and rubrications usually usually absent, occasionally visible as indistinct cloudy forms in the windows. opaque pale whitish grey tinged with cream, yellow, milky green or pink. The colour of the margins and face island comprises pale milky-grey tinged with blue, green, pink or cream. Shoulders and inner faces of fissures opaque.
Flowers: Yellow with white centre up to 40 mm in diameter.
Fruits: Capsules 5-6 locular.
Seeds: Light brown.
Blooming season: Flowers appear in late-autumn.

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