A place to discuss Lithops

The 25th July 2021 marks 400 years of botanical research and teaching by the University of Oxford. As a celebration and count-down to this anniversary the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum together with the Oxford University Herbaria and the Department of Plant Sciences will highlight 400 plants of...

Succulent plants are mostly found in deserts and semi-deserts. They have devised an amazing number of strategies to survive the extremes of typical desert c...

Lithops succulent plants are often called living stones but they also look a bit like cloven hooves. Find out how to grow living stone plants in this article so you can enjoy these interesting rock lookalikes.

Plants that look like rocks? Those would be living stones, in the genus Lithops. These are small succulent plants that survive in their harsh environment by having much of the plant body below ground, and only the wide leaf end visible above the rocky ground. To learn more about these fascinating plants that make good...

Here's a video from Lizk's youtube channel on making soil for Lithops. I enjoy her down to earth and practical style of gardening. If you are interested in succulents in general, LizK has plenty of information to share.

Lithops is a genus of succulent plants in the ice plant family, Aizoaceae. Members of the genus are native to southern Africa. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek words λίθος (líthos) 'stone' and ὄψ (óps) 'face', referring to the stone-like appearance of the plants. They avoid being eaten by blending in with...

Lithops, also called living stones, are unusual rock lookalike succulents. In this guide, we talk about how to grow and care for this plant.