Lithops Dinteri var. Frederici
Living Stones 'Dinteri Frederici'
Original:Description: Lithops dinteri var. frederici is one of the local or morphological forms of the variable Lithops dinteri distinguished by its small sized and more convex heads with paler coloured bodies with less marked red-dots (Rubrications). It is however quite variable in colouration and the numbers and design of red dots on the tops of the leaves may vary a lot, and sometime the heads are ivory coloured with no red at all. Habit: Growths solitary or few (2-3) in a clump to 3 cm high, but occasionally with more than 6 heads.Bodies (paired leaves): Small sized, 12-20 mm long, 10-14 mm broad, compact, cordate-truncate. Sides coloured purplish green. Fissure 5-7 mm deep. Lobes elliptic-rectangular from above view, convex in profile, more or less equal, top of lobes, smooth, window more or less densely occluded and indistinct; in the window dull dark red dots and/or short dashes and/or hooks and/or lines (rubrications) distributed unevenly over the surface, but often not so bright red as in the other varieties. (The cell walls in the rubrications are coloured red); window bordered by a coloured band, outer part of which is light to dark yellow tinged with brown, this coloured margin more prominent and broader than the inner part of the border; in the margin at both ends where the fissure ends several dark-green to dark blue-green dots in the surface; inner margin practically straight and scarcely lobed or laciniated; outer margin usually absent or indistinct and irregularly incised. Islands few and indistinct, various shades of opaque creamy buff or beige tinged with pink or yellow. Channels often narrow and indistinct, obscurely translucent greenish grey, dull grey-green, often with a reddish tint.Flowers: Daisy-like, diurnal, yellow, small to medium, up to 32 mm across, mostly 20-25 mm across. Fruits: Capsules 4 or 5-chambered. Profile boat-shaped, top broadly elliptic, with hinge-rim flat, occasionaly slightly peaked.Seeds: Very fine, brown, tuberculate. New:A popular and sought after succulent. Lithops have paired leaves with smooth flat or rounded tops that are ridged or wrinkled, sometimes with transparent windows, and sometimes colorful markings. The flowers are white or yellow and emerge in autumn or winter. Lithops are relatively easy to grow if given sufficient sun and a suitable well-drained soil.
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Full sun to partial shade
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Very little water
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Not Frost hardy
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Light and free draining
Common name
Living Stones 'Dinteri Frederici'
Latin name
Lithops Dinteri var. Frederici
type
Succulent
family
Aizoaceae
ph
5.0 - 6.5 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Full sun to partial shade
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Frost
Not Frost hardy
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Soil
Light and free draining
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Water
Very little water
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
full grown dimensions
0.02 M
0.01 M
Lithops Dinteri var. Frederici
Original:Description: Lithops dinteri var. frederici is one of the local or morphological forms of the variable Lithops dinteri distinguished by its small sized and more convex heads with paler coloured bodies with less marked red-dots (Rubrications). It is however quite variable in colouration and the numbers and design of red dots on the tops of the leaves may vary a lot, and sometime the heads are ivory coloured with no red at all. Habit: Growths solitary or few (2-3) in a clump to 3 cm high, but occasionally with more than 6 heads.Bodies (paired leaves): Small sized, 12-20 mm long, 10-14 mm broad, compact, cordate-truncate. Sides coloured purplish green. Fissure 5-7 mm deep. Lobes elliptic-rectangular from above view, convex in profile, more or less equal, top of lobes, smooth, window more or less densely occluded and indistinct; in the window dull dark red dots and/or short dashes and/or hooks and/or lines (rubrications) distributed unevenly over the surface, but often not so bright red as in the other varieties. (The cell walls in the rubrications are coloured red); window bordered by a coloured band, outer part of which is light to dark yellow tinged with brown, this coloured margin more prominent and broader than the inner part of the border; in the margin at both ends where the fissure ends several dark-green to dark blue-green dots in the surface; inner margin practically straight and scarcely lobed or laciniated; outer margin usually absent or indistinct and irregularly incised. Islands few and indistinct, various shades of opaque creamy buff or beige tinged with pink or yellow. Channels often narrow and indistinct, obscurely translucent greenish grey, dull grey-green, often with a reddish tint.Flowers: Daisy-like, diurnal, yellow, small to medium, up to 32 mm across, mostly 20-25 mm across. Fruits: Capsules 4 or 5-chambered. Profile boat-shaped, top broadly elliptic, with hinge-rim flat, occasionaly slightly peaked.Seeds: Very fine, brown, tuberculate. New:A popular and sought after succulent. Lithops have paired leaves with smooth flat or rounded tops that are ridged or wrinkled, sometimes with transparent windows, and sometimes colorful markings. The flowers are white or yellow and emerge in autumn or winter. Lithops are relatively easy to grow if given sufficient sun and a suitable well-drained soil.
Planting
From Early Spring TO Early Spring
Lithops thrive best in a coarse, well-drained substrate. Any soil that retains too much water will cause the plants to burst their skins as they over-expand. Plants grown in strong light will develop hard strongly coloured skins which are resistant to damage and rot, although persistent overwatering will still be fatal. Excessive heat will kill potted plants as they cannot cool themselves by transpiration and rely on staying buried in cool soil below the surface.
Propagation
From Early Spring TO Early Spring
Propagation of Lithops is by seed or cuttings. Cuttings can only be used to produce new plants after a plant has naturally divided to form multiple heads, so most propagation is by seed. Lithops can readily be pollinated by hand if two separate clones of a species flower at the same time, and seed will be ripe about 9 months later. Seed is easy to germinate, but the seedlings are small and vulnerable for the first year or two, and will not flower until at least two or three years old.