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Lithops salicola C321 25km WNW Petrusville
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L. salicola is an easy species. Some people consider it
one of the most tolerant of
overwatering. It is not infrequent that
seedlings grow up spontaneously in the potting container at the
base of
the mother plant.
This plant
clumps up quickly (Desmond Cole recorded a plant with
more than 350 heads), and they can get to be up to 25cm across
(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.
Description: 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 in autumn.
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Blooms
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Unripe fruits
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Note: After flowering in the
autumn and extending through
winter
season the plant doesn’t need
watering, but they will still be
growing, the new
bodies will be increasing in size extracting
water from the outer
succulent leaves, allowing them to
shrivel away. In fact the plant in this time extracts
water and
nutrient stored in the outer
succulent leaves, allowing them to
dehydrate relocating the water to the rest of the plant and to
the new leaves that form during this period until the old leaves are
reduced to nothing more than "thin papery shells".
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Family: Mesebrianthemaceae (Aizoaceae)
Scientific name: Lithops
salicola L. Bol. (1936)
Origin: From a salt pan in Orange
Free State (SA)
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Mother and sons
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A deep wine red faced clone.
Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars of
Lithops salicola.
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