My 2nd Lithops collection...

[harlem2347]

Hehe!! This is my 2nd collection of Lithops...Get 3 Lithops which spare from Malowie...Thanks ya!!

Before that, I already get 3 lithops which spare from David...all now grow the new small and thin roots..happy about that!!

I put all the 6 Lithops in same pot with sand, bottom full with small white stone and top full with small pebbles...The pot be in the bright place...

Mum already warning me...dun allow me collect "nothing stone"....hehe!!! But I still love them so much...


Lithops which spare from Malowie






I put all the Lithops together.....mum trick by them, she thought they are all stone and scold me that why put stone on that place....haha!!

[David]

You camaflage them well. The pebbles blend in well with the Lithops. So you're just using small white stones as the media and top up with pebbles.

[harlem2347]

Hehe!! David…u are right…I feel that put small pebbles on the top is better put the small white stone…

[plantlover]

Lithops are becoming a hot topic now. There are so many posts about them. BTW, nice lithops. Too bad I don't have any or I'll trick my dad(he's nepblind,sarrablind and don't know which plant is dead or alive.)

[harlem2347]

Yaloh! Plantlover, besides CPs, some of us attract by this living stone…Lithops really very special and peculiar…U can buy from that website of Germany, I also spare from David and Malowie. They also bought the Lithops form that website.

Haha!! U quite naughty!! Actually I dun trick my mum. I just put my Lithops at there and she think they are stone and call me keep them in storeroom. Quite funny!!

[marvin1997]

What are those??Do they grow leaves?Or they're like that forever??

[plantlover]

Those are lithops or pebble plants. They look like stones and that is the leaves.The flowers looks a little like chrysanthemum.

[harlem2347]

Hi! Marvin...
Lithops are often known as pebble plants or living stones. Individual plants usually have two bulbous, almost fused leaves opposite to each other and hardly any stem. The slit between the leaves contains the meristem and produces flowers and new leaves. Old leaves die after the new pair has emerged. The leaves of the Lithops are transparent. These leaves, or “windows” contain calcium oxalate crystals that diffuse onto the area that is being photosynthesized in the Lithop. This helps the plant absorb lots of sunlight even in minimum exposure. The leaves of the Lithops are considered to be one of the leading plants with the most developed "window" leaves. Occasionally two new pairs emerge and plants can eventually form large clumps. The plant is almost entirely buried in soil, only exposing the flat upper surfaces of leaves. This is an adaptation to the dry, hot environment.

[David]

Yaa... we are poisoning Marvin to get lithops too... haa, haa,...