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Objektiv (Minolta 35-70mm) in Retrostellung -
Retroadapter (Makro-Umkehrring) für Olympus/Panasonic Micro Four Thirds (MFT) mit 55mm Filtergewinde
Aufnahme aus der Konserve von 2021
A fun project from October last year (2012) Now, April 2013 I can say the plants settled in nicely and are starting to put on a lot of growth.
The brown ones are L.hookeri, the grey ones L.marmorata ssp. elisae
Genere: Lithops
Famiglia: Aizoaceae
Habitat: Regioni semidesertiche tra Namibia e Sudafrica
Coltivazione: In serra coltivare in terriccio standard per cactus con sfatticcio di foglie, alla luce. All’aperto coltivare in terreno moderatamente fertile, molto drenato, al sole
Per ottenere delle buone fioriture è necessario curare bene la pianta e mantenerla in piena luce anche durante i periodi di riposo vegetativo
Curiosità: Sono conosciute anche come “sassi viventi”, visto che il loro nome deriva da lithos (pietra) e opsis, che significa aspetto.
The big one is Lithops aucampiae ssp. aucampiae v. aucampiae 'Nugget, on the left Lithops aucampiae ssp. aucampiae v. aucampiae 'Rubrobrunneus'
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Lithops salicola seedlings. Lithops are commonly called Living Stones. They are native to Namibia and South Africa.
#Lithopssalicola #Lithops #salicola #livingstones #CUgreenhouse #botany
New contactless Lithops Glow Technique:
A warm-white Luxeon LED works as a bright point-source that is relay imaged onto the Lithops surface with a couple of lenses, illuminating the transparent plant body through the top window. Now Lithops glow photos can be shot without obstructing parts pressed onto the plants like the head of a flashlight or the stem of a fiberoptic light guide. This image here is an overlay of sequent individual glow photos, all shot with the same fixed camera position. No color or contrast manipulation was done; the white balance is manually referred to the light source shining onto a white sheet of paper.
More? Have a look at my Lithops glow set!
See what these plants look like under normal lighting conditions:
www.flickr.com/photos/yellowcloud/4240002251/
Lithops are extremely succulent plants originating from the semi-deserts of southern Africa. Their plant body rests under ground, while on top they have transparent windows to let sunlight in for photosynthesis. A camouflage pattern on the windows lets them appear more or less like a pair of pebblestones, so hungry animals may hardly find them. I like them because they look like ornamented knobs or gemstones.
DO NOT MISS:
Be aware that sites from the southern hemisphere
have a six-month-shift in the description of the
annual lithops growing cycle.
A three-leaf Lithops. They are the "Four-Leaf Clovers" amongst the ordinary bilateral Lithops, and I found this one in the gardening store lately.
DO NOT MISS:
Be aware that sites from the southern hemisphere
have a six-month-shift in the description of the
annual lithops growing cycle.
Living stones growing in small, old terracotta pots. They are succulent plants consisting of a pair of opposite succulent leaves inserted on an extremely short stem. The apical meristem produces a new leaf pair that develops between the older pair - as demonstrated here, shrinking the old leaves and recycling water and metabolites to produce the new growth.
Conophytum (upper) and Lithops (lower) are extremely succulent
plants originating from the semi-deserts of southern Africa.
These two grew in the nursery of Uwe Beyer
and I ordered them by mail from his webshop
His full botanical descriptions:
Conophytum pageae "subrisum" SB1200, Kaalberg
Lithops pseudotruncatella ssp. pseudotruncatella v. pseudotruncatella "mundtii",
150km NE of Windhoek, Cole#99