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Lithops  salicola C353
15 km WNW von Luckhoff, South Africa
 
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Lithops salicola C353
 

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 greendull, grey-green, brown or dark brown/violet, windows, flowers white in autumn.

 


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Family: Mesebrianthemaceae (Aizoaceae)

 

 


Cultivation:
After flowering in the autumn and extending through winter the plant doesn’t need watering, but they  extracts water from the outer succulent leaves, allowing them to shrivel away, relocating water to the rest of the plant and to the new leaves that form during this period. This plant is best for a well lit area (Bright shade to full sun). Water sparingly only when warm, no water when cold.

Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars of Lithops salicola.

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