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Re-potting the survivors:
After fighting spider mites with an out-of-soil quarantine I re-potted my plants. I chose more dense arrays of plants in the pot than before.
Here I put only Lithops aucampiae together.
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.
My first Lithops and the one that more years lived, but one day... pufffff (roten)
Now I only have one (unidentified) "living stone"...
Theres a few scratches, widening up, because my other half dropped it.
Anyways, it's the best Lithop I've ever seen and it's a shame that it might die.
C012 Lithops aucampiae subsp. aucampiae var. aucampiae (forma di Kuruman) 10 km E Kuruman, South Africa.
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Diaphoretickes
(unranked): Archaeplastida
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Streptophyta
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Polysporangiophytes
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Caryophyllidae
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Aizoaceae
Subfamily: Ruschioideae
Tribe: Ruschiae
Genus: Lithops
Species: L. aucampiae