Lithops salicola L.Bolus

 

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 ha

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Lithops salicola cv. Anemone

Description: This cultivars has mutant green flowers remembering a sea anemone, apart for the flowers, the plant are similar in shape, colour, size and cultivation to the standard species. Two mutant seedling with this flower feature appeared in cultivation at Cactus-art Nursery in a batch of Lithops salicola C321 25 km WNW of Petrusville, South Africa.
Lithops salicola is an easy mat forming succulent that clumps up quickly, and they can get to be up to 25 cm across with hundreds of heads (takes decades) and it is often seen in large mounds at shows because it is relatively easy to manage like that where many other species would quickly kill themselves. Some people consider it one of the most tolerant of overwatering.
Bodies (paired leaves): Truncate profile, obscurely translucent broad jagged or finely netted to almost uniform dark green dull, grey-green, brown or dark brown/violet, windows.
Flowers: White.
Blooming season: Autumn.

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