Lithops are the so called Living stones, mostly from South Africa, the cape area, Nambia and the Karron. Lithops are very good mimicry plants looking like the stones and pieces of rock that surround them. Only when they produce their bright yellow or white flowers! can they clearly be seen. In nature they grow with most of the plant body buried in the ground, only the windowed tops being visable.

The plant consist of two leaves, seperated by a fissure, this can be shallow or very deep splitting the leaves apart. The top is more or less flat, often a bit convex, often with intricate patterns, consisting of lines and dots. These lines and dots can be very colourful, they are really transparent windows that allow the sunlight down into the plant. In this way the plant is able to withstand the hot sun and assimulate the sunlight for photosynthsis and growth, without giving up much of their water content. So you will find green ones, others white or grey to look like granite, brown and ochre to mimic the ground that they grow in.

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