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Lithops hookeri v. subfenestrata
(syn. brunneoviolacea)
C19
TL: 40 km SW of Griquatown, South Africa
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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.

 

Lithops are an expression of particular niches, L. hookeri var. subfenestrata comes from the equally shiny dark and implausibly shiny ironstone.
 


 

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
 


Flowers are Yellow in late summer.

 

 

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