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Coloured as earth with, many shiny dots covering the brown-grey.
 

Description: L. terricolor is generally smaller than most Lithops but its shape follows the same pattern of a cordate (heart-shaped), bifurcate body of two leaves, cleft nearly to the base and showing a pattern of channels, islands and windows on the top face. The patterns of colour and dots on the face is  more or less regular within certain ranges of similarity. For this species, the numerous dots (small windows) are very specific ranging in colour from dark grey through browns to purple.

Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars of Lithops terricolor:

• Lithops terricolor C132  40km E Laingsburg
• Lithops terricolor C132A cv SILVER SPUR
• Lithops terricolor C134 (5 km N of Prince Albert, South Africa)
• Lithops terricolor C345A "SPECKLED GOLD" (30 km WNW of Prince Albert Road, South Africa)
• Lithops terricolor C346 (30 km WNW Prince Albert Road, Western Cape, South Africa)

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Scientific name:  Lithops terricolor N.E. Br. (1922)

Taxonomic Synonyms:

• Lithops localis (N.E.Br.) Schwantes 1938
• Mesembryanthemum locale N.E.Brown 1920
• Lithops peersii L.Bolus 1929
• Lithops localis (N.E.Br.) Schwantes var. peersii (L.Bolus) DeBoer & Boom. 1961

Vernacular Names: Living Stones, Cleft Stones, Living Rocks, Split Rocks, stone plant

Flowers are yellow in autumn.

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