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Coloured as earth with, many shiny dots covering the
brown-grey-purple top. Flowers yellow, sometimes with white centres in
autumn.
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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:
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Family: Mesebrianthemaceae (Aizoaceae)
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
- Lithops terricolor N.E.Brown 1922
Origin: From Eastern Cape to Northern Cape Provinces, South
Africa, may be found as groups of 2 to 6 heads, or even up to 3 or
4 times that. In
habitat they grow, always almost completely buried, with only the
windowed faces showing at the
soil surface, preferably among pebbles of fine-grained sandstone,
and siltstone.
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