Strange plants
What very strange plants, Lithops are.
Given one many moons ago, possibly as a Grandma Day gift, mine have grown and multiplied so that they now resemble a little dish of flowering stones. Finished flowering now my little dish is busy multiplying some more. Fascinating. "Popularly called "Living Stones", Lithops are some of the world's most fascinating plants! Since their discovery by John Burchell in 1811 when "on picking up from the stony ground what was supposed a curiously shaped pebble, it proved to be a plant", Lithops have been avidly sought by the collector of succulent plants. Resembling the pebbles and stones among which they grow in their African habitat, they have become favourites of the collector of strange and unusual plants. Their subtle colours of grey, brown, rust, green and pink, combined with their fantastically intricate markings, make them most desirable additions to any plant collection." http://bit.ly/VQmPG How large can one plant grow? Bobbie -- http://www.smudgespatch.co.uk/newhome3.html |
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