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Lithops localis (also known as Lithops terricolor) is a species of plant in the family Aizoaceae, indigenous to South Africa.
It is sometimes 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.
Lithops localis is naturally found in the southern Karoo region in the Cape Provinces of South Africa. Its natural range extends in an east–west belt, through the Little Karoo, and in the adjacent sliver of the Great Karoo just to the north. It is the only Lithops species which occurs in this stretch of southern Africa.
Lithops amicorum · Aucamps Living Stone · Langberg Stonefig · Lithops coleorum · Lithops comptonii · Lithops dinteri · Lithops divergens · Lithops dorotheae · Lithops francisci · Lithops fulviceps · Lithops gesineae · Lithops geyeri
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lithops localis 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.
