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With a nice and unusually murky
windowed apex. Similar to var. hookeri
but slightly humped with a
rich red-brown to violet coloration.
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Lithops are an expression of particular
niches, L. hookeri var. subfenestrata comes from the equally
shiny dark and implausibly shiny ironstone.
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In the
winter
season the plant doesn’t need
watering, but it will still be
growing. The new
bodies will increase in size as the old outer
leaves begin to shrivel. In fact the plant in this
period
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".
Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars of
Lithops hookerii

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Family: Mesebrianthemaceae (Aizoaceae)
Scientific name:
Lithops hookeri v. subfenestrata (De Boer) D.T. Cole1988
Published in: D.T. Cole, Lithops Flowering Stones: 220: 1988
Synonym: Lithops
turbiniformis var. subfenestrata
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Flowers are Yellow in late summer.

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