Lithops Otzeniana East Brakfontein SH531
Living Stones 'Otzeniana East Brakfontein'
Original:Habitat: The substrate comprises mainly gneiss and granite rocks. The plants grows ether on open places and under bushes. Background colours: Grey-white, pale brown or greenish. Description: Lithops otzeniana usually forms small groups with 2-5 heads but occasionally with up to 25 heads (especially in cultivation). It is a very peculiar species easily distinguished for its translucent greenish-olive top with lighter raised, scalloped islands around the edges. Cole numbers: C128, C280, C350 Bodies (paired leaves): Up to 3 cm hight and 20-30 mm x 15-20 mm wide, cordate truncate in profile, with a relative deep fissure and lobes half-moon shaped more or less divergent. Face: More or less elliptical smooth to moderately rugose and more or less convex. Margin: Very distinct with elevated teeth-like rounded peninsulas. Islands: Usually few but sometime numerous mostly included among the margins peninsulas. Colour light grey with shades of pink, cream, green or blue. Windows: Mostly occluded with broad to narrow channel. Colour: Greenish, olive-green or bluish green, translucent sometime with white or pink shadows. Rubrication: Not present. Flowers: Yellow with a white throat, about 1,5-3,5 cm diameter. Blooming season: Early autumn. Fruits: Mostly 5-chambered capsules. 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.
Contributed by @sushiwaitress
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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 'Otzeniana East Brakfontein'
Latin name
Lithops Otzeniana East Brakfontein SH531
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 Otzeniana East Brakfontein SH531
Original:Habitat: The substrate comprises mainly gneiss and granite rocks. The plants grows ether on open places and under bushes. Background colours: Grey-white, pale brown or greenish. Description: Lithops otzeniana usually forms small groups with 2-5 heads but occasionally with up to 25 heads (especially in cultivation). It is a very peculiar species easily distinguished for its translucent greenish-olive top with lighter raised, scalloped islands around the edges. Cole numbers: C128, C280, C350 Bodies (paired leaves): Up to 3 cm hight and 20-30 mm x 15-20 mm wide, cordate truncate in profile, with a relative deep fissure and lobes half-moon shaped more or less divergent. Face: More or less elliptical smooth to moderately rugose and more or less convex. Margin: Very distinct with elevated teeth-like rounded peninsulas. Islands: Usually few but sometime numerous mostly included among the margins peninsulas. Colour light grey with shades of pink, cream, green or blue. Windows: Mostly occluded with broad to narrow channel. Colour: Greenish, olive-green or bluish green, translucent sometime with white or pink shadows. Rubrication: Not present. Flowers: Yellow with a white throat, about 1,5-3,5 cm diameter. Blooming season: Early autumn. Fruits: Mostly 5-chambered capsules. 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.
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