Lithops

Family Aizoaceae. Native to South Africa. In the wild there are more than 60 species of plants that resemble small stones in appearance. Hence their popular name - "living stones". These plants grow in harsh desert conditions in nature.

Lithops bella - Beautiful lithops - forms a clump of several pairs of identical "stone" leaves, up to 3 cm high and up to 2.5 cm in diameter. Leaf color brownish-yellow. Flowers white, sometimes with a slight fragrance.

Lithops divergens - forms a clump of several pairs of leaves of unequal sizes, from 1 to 3 cm high. The fissure between a pair of leaves is deep. Leaves green, on the upper slightly sloping surface with large gray-green spots. Flowers yellow.

Lithops salicola - forms an entire colony of several pairs of gray leaves, about 2–2.5 cm high and of the same diameter. The fissure between a pair of leaves is not deep. The upper surface is almost flat, olive-green with dark green spots. Flowers white.

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