Succulent plant stone flower, stone flower planting

If it does not grow and bloom in the rainy season, it is difficult to find it in the gravel of its origin. This is its self-protection nature to prevent small animals from preying, called "mimicry". The most surprising natural adaptation of stoneflowers is the color of their leaves. Leaves are not green like almost all higher plants, but have various creamy, gray, brown hues, and darker window areas. The dots and red lines on the leaves form a pattern, and the surface texture blends the plant harmoniously with its surroundings, making it difficult for enemies to find it.

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stony plant

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Chinese Name: Shengshihua

Lithops pseudotruncatella (Bgr.) N.E.Br

Other names: stone jade, stone flower, stone grass, elephant hoof, ingot

Family: Aizoaceae

Genus: Lithops

Distribution: mainly produced in South Africa and Namibia in arid areas of the bedrock cracks or gravel soil.

Configuration characteristic: Unripe stone flower plant is short, basically by two opposite unripe fleshy leaf join and become. The top is flat, and there is a crack in the center. Flowers will bloom in the crack.

Stone Flower Attribute Characteristics

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It is a seasonal plant because it is relatively dry in summer, usually dormant in summer, and grows normally in winter. In dry season, the plant withers and is buried in gravel sand or only exposed to the top surface of the plant, and light enters the body only through the top surface (window). When the rainy season comes, it quickly recovers its original plant type and grows and blossoms.

Common varieties of raw stone flowers are: Fulai jade, pattern jade, sun wheel jade, Zhu Xianyu, Mrs. Li and so on.

How to grow stone flower

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In mild temperate climates, the usual treatment is to let the stony flowers dry completely in winter, watering them only after the old leaves have dried and been replaced by new leaf pairs. When the plants bloom, continue watering throughout the fall and then stop in the winter.

In tropical climates, stoneflower is grown mainly in winter because of its long summer dormancy. In all seasons, stony flowers will be most active and need water most in autumn, and each variety of stony flowers blooms at about the same time.

Stone flowers thrive best in a rough, well-drained substrate. Any soil that retains too much water can cause the skins of plants to burst because they absorb too much water and swell too much. Stony flowers grown in bright light strive to appear intensely colored to resist damage and decay. Too much heat kills lithiums because they can't cool themselves by transpiring, but rely on the part left in the cool soil below the surface to dissipate heat.

The reproduction of stoneflower depends on seed or insertion. Interplanting can only be used when a plant naturally forms multiple heads and later produces new plants, so most reproduction depends on seeds. Stone flowers can be easily pollinated by hand, and if two separate species flower at the same time, the seeds mature after about nine months. Seeds germinate easily, but seedlings are small and fragile in the first year or two and do not flower for at least two to three years.

"Conclusion: The shape of the Stone Flower is like two stones with smooth surfaces. When it blooms, beautiful flowers grow from the cracks between the stones, which makes people feel moved! In addition to Sun Wukong, the stone flower can also be called a kind of "stone crack jumped out" of life!

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"Conclusion: The shape of the Stone Flower is like two stones with smooth surfaces. When it blooms, beautiful flowers grow from the cracks between the stones, which makes people feel moved! In addition to Sun Wukong, the stone flower can also be called a kind of "stone crack jumped out" of life!

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