리톱스 올리베이시아-lithops olivacea

리톱스 올리베이시아

lithops olivacea 

 

Common Names include:
ENGLISH: Stone Plant, Flowering Stone
ITALIAN (Italiano): Pianta Sasso

Description: Lithops olivacea is a distinctive specie with large nail-shaped olive green windows on convex upper surfaces, often flecked with a few whitish islands. It is quite uniform and relatively easy to identify.
Habit: It is a tiny egg-shaped, geophyte succulent, usually forming clumps of 2 to 10 heads or sometime compact agglomerate with up to 30 or more usually less than 2 cm tall.
Bodies (Paired leaves): Up to 24 mm long and 18 mm broad at the fissure, mostly about 18 X 15 mm. Leaves firm, tightly pressed together, fissure 6-12 mm deep, but not gaping, top of surface truncate to slightly convex, occasionally slightly concave or in the older stage strongly convex; window usually large, always shaped like a nail, olive-green to bluish green or grey pink, transparent, sometimes light-green with few (very) sparse white islands in it, rarely ridged or immaculate. As a rule in Lithops the margins show various degrees of indentation, but in L. olivacea, the inner margin is straight and plain and without markings, while the outer margin usually denticulate or rarely quite plain; in the older stage a number of blue-green dots appear on the margins of the window. Margins and islands various shades of opaque creamy grey, often tinged with yellow, green, pink, buff, pale salmon or mauve. Shoulders as for the margins, but usually greyer and duller.

 

Flowers: Diurnal, long lasting, yellow with white throats, up to 45 mm across, but usually less.
Blooming season: Late summer to mid autumn.
Fruits: Capsules mostly 5-chambered. Boat-shaped, top flat. Face elliptic, up to 9 by 7,5 mm.
Seeds: Yellow-brown, rugose.

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