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Lithops aucampiae
Also called Stone Plant
Lithops aucampiae is a species of flowering plant in the family Aizoaceae, found in South Africa. it was named after Juanita Aucamp, who found a specimen on her father's farm in Postmasburg, Northern Cape in 1929.
It is commonly used as a houseplant or for landscaping. Like all Lithops, it requires extremely well-drained soil.
Like all Lithops it also grows in annual cycles, as the leaf-pairs flower, and then each produces a new leaf-pair that replaces the old one (which shrivels away). The principal rule of watering is that Lithops should be kept dry from when they finish flowering, up until the old leaf-pairs are fully replaced.
This desert plant is found in areas of ironstone, with sandstone, chert and quartzite in Transvaal, South Africa. This is an area with summer rainfall.
Lithops amicorum · Langberg Stonefig · Lithops coleorum · Lithops comptonii · Lithops dinteri · Lithops divergens · Lithops dorotheae · Lithops francisci · Lithops fulviceps · Lithops gesineae · Lithops geyeri · Lithops gracilidelineata
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lithops aucampiae by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
