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Earth-coloured, with many shiny dots covering the brown-grey-purple
top. Flowers are yellow, sometimes with white centres in autumn.
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Description:
L. terricolor
is generally smaller than most Lithops but its shape follows the
same pattern of a
cordate (heart-shaped),
bifurcate body of two
leaves, cleft nearly to the
base and showing a pattern of channels, islands and
windows on the top face. The patterns of colour and dots on the face
are more or less regular, within certain ranges of similarity. For this
species, the numerous dots (small windows) are very specific, ranging
in colour from dark grey through browns to purple.
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Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars of
Lithops terricolor:
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Family: Mesebrianthemaceae (Aizoaceae)
Scientific name:
Lithops terricolor
N.E. Br. (1922)
Taxonomic
Synonyms:
- Lithops localis (N.E.Br.) Schwantes
1938
- Mesembryanthemum locale N.E.Brown
1920
- Lithops peersii L.Bolus 1929
- Lithops localis (N.E.Br.) Schwantes
var. peersii (L.Bolus) DeBoer & Boom. 1961
Vernacular Names: Living Stones, Cleft
Stones, Living Rocks, Split Rocks, stone plant
Origin: From Eastern Cape to Northern Cape
Provinces, South Africa, they may be found as groups of 2 to 6 heads,
or even up to 3 or 4 times that. In
habitat they grow, always almost completely buried, with only the
windowed faces showing at the
soil surface, preferably among pebbles of fine-grained sandstone,
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