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Here come some of the other kids from the same bunch. Most of them have large windows with few islands - no idea what kind of aucampiae they're supposed to be but they're pretty. Colorful, too: bordeaux, dark green with orange crown, beige with dark dusky dots. Makes me wonder whether they'll keep their colors once they've grown up. On an unrelated subject, did you know Francois Hoes from Belgium has an amazing new lithops seedlist? Lots of very interesing cultivars I was eiger to own browsing though online galleries. If you're in Europe you might want to check it out. (Yes, I couldn't resist and ordered some to my parent's home - they came within a couple of days and will have to wait for some more months to 'hit the ground'.)

Last summer I bought a bunch of cute plants from a store nearby which seem to be some aucampiae-ish mix (correct me if I'm wrong). Well, you know I can't calmly walk past that :). Like the most of the lithops I get from an unspecialised stores like this they started to change their lobes as soon as they could, obviously "downsizing". As they were half-through with it I noticed a little lithops kid growing right beside a slightly bigger one and thought I buried it in pumice accidentally. It was not before I re-poted them a couple of months later when I saw it was actually one plant gone two-headed: the smaller head broke through near the root and was slowly growing as the other seemed to change just like the rest of the plants. It's the one on the right side of the picture. And here I thought lithops must be big enough to get an extra head: must be the dope from the store. :) I'll show some of the others of the bunch in the next post. They're nothing speci...

After the last post I went through my picture folders, and it looks like it wasn't entirely fair to say the fellows didn't grow much! In my defence, they were really tiny back in February 2009 :) It's the same 5cm pot

Continuing the 'first' post series, these are the first two lithops plants I ever bought. They are very dear to me. Of course I can't say for sure, but my guess is lesliei v. venteri . Funny thing they stayed small throughout the years. Lesliei generally don't get that big, but these are still pretty tiny. They got two-headed this year (quite a surprise!) but not much bigger - they just have two tiny heads each now. Look healthy though :) ps: I tried a bigger pot but they didn't like it: got even smaller, haha. (This pot is ca. 5cm Ø)