Lithops ruschiorum C102

 

Lithops ruschiorum C102

20km East of Cape Cross (Kaap Kruis), Namibia

Lithops ruschiorum C 240

25km East of Cape Cross (Kaap Kruis), Namibia

5km 차이로 모양도 약간

Description: Lithops ruschiorum a.k.a. "Living Stones or "Flowering stones" are also known in Namibia with the rather descriptive name of “Bushman's or Hottentot's buttocks” and are also sometimes referred to as the “Kaokoveld Lithops”. Although it varies considerably in size and in the presence or absence of facial markings, this variety has a characteristic combination of cordate shape and near white colour. L. ruschion bears a single yellow flower which appears between the two cheeks of the "buttocks" after it rained. A fresh pair of leaves grows every year almost as if a new plant emerges between the old "buttocks".
Habit: The plants are stemless, perennial succulents. Growths solitary or usually in clumps of 5-6 heads, but may occasionally forms large clumps with more than 30 heads. Each heads consists of a single, simple, fleshy body which is split into two parts by a deep fissure. From this cleft a single flower blooms when climatic conditions are favourable.
Bodies (paired leaves): Up to 20-38 mm high and about 15-27 mm in width, turbinate, cordate in profile, fissure up to 20 mm deep, lobes slightly to widely divergent, faces prominently convex in the young stage and somewhat elliptic or reniform in outline viewed from above; older stage flat, glabrous; top of lobe in young stage milky pearl-grey, yellowish or yellowish-ochre; older stage milky pearl-grey to greenish-grey; lobes in young stage with minute round irregularly shaped dots or linear depressions. Very often these depressions are branched or interconnected with one another by delicate grooves, the depressions whether dot or line remaining the dominant feature; the dots or depressions coloured prominently dark-red, the connections very faintly coloured; in some cases the lines are absent. Windows and margins absent.
Flowers: The flower is usually about the same dimension as the plant itself (about 15 to 30 mm in diameter) and consists of a large number of long, narrow, yellow petals opening (in the afternoon) into a flattened halo, often with long pedicels.
Blooming season: Autumn, usually in April and May in habitat. In general appearance the blossoms are very similar to the Mesembryanthemum or ice-plant (to which they are closely related).
Fruits: Capsules mostly 5-chambered. Profile boat-shaped, top flat, occasionally slightly peaked. Face elliptic.
Seeds: Minuscule, light brown to brown.

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Lithops ruschiorum C102

Lithops ruschiorum C240