Lithops salicola L.Bolus

국표에는 Lithops (리토프스속) 3종

 

재배식물	정명	Lithops bella N.E.Br.	리톱스 벨라	2011/12/08
재배식물	정명	Lithops salicola L.Bolus	리톱스 살리콜라	2011/12/08
재배식물	정명	Lithops marmorata N.E.Br.	리톱스 마르모라타	2011/12/08

Description: Lithops salicola is a tiny succulent with swollen paired leaves the size of pebbles and beautiful white flowers in autumn. This plant clumps up quickly and forms matted groups with usually 2 to 50 heads (Desmond Cole recorded a plant with more than 350 heads), and they can get to be up to 25 cm across (takes decades). This Lithops is one of the taller species, and its slate grey leaf heads stand above the soil surface.
Bodies (paired leaves): Truncate in profile with elliptic-reniform faces, flattened or (usually) slightly convex, 17-35 mm tall, 11-26 mm broad. Fissure shallow. Surface smooth, obscurely translucent broad jagged or finely netted with confluent areas to almost uniform. Sides grey. Windows translucent, large, normally completely open, olive, greyish green, dark green, reddish, brown or dark brown/violet. Island absent or small, slightly raised opaque greenish, whitish, yellowish, pinkish or lilac grey. Margins usually very distinct and regular, seldom dentate or sinuate. Channels seldom present, in various shades of grey, greenish or bluish grey or greyish green or lilac. Rubrication usually lacking or, if present, as dots and dashes in the marginal indentations.
Flowers: White 20-50 mm in diameter.
Fruits: 5(-6)-chambered.
Blooming season: Autumn.
Remarks: The plants described under the name Lithops salicola var. reticulata are a hybrid population between Lithops salicola and Lithops hallii.