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Whit a nicely  rich orange-red coloration.
Flowers are Yellow in late summer.

In  the winter season the plant doesn’t need watering, but they will still be growing, the new bodies will be increasing in size as the old outer leaves begin to shrivel. In fact the plant in this time 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".

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Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars of Lithops hookerii
 

• Lithops hookerii (Form Abrahamsdam)
• Lithops hookerii var. elephina C93
• Lithops hookerii var. lutea C38
• Lithops hookerii var. marginata "Cerise" C88
• Lithops hookerii var. subfenestrata "bruneoviolacea" C19

All the information and photos in cactus art files are now available also in the new the Encyclopaedia of Succulents. We hope you find this new site informative and useful.