Lithops Verruculosa 'Rose of Texas'

Original:Description: Lithops verruculosa cv. Rose of Texas is a selected form with great pink flowers instead of yellow, but all the other characteristics namely size and shape of bodies, fruits, roots etc. clearly show that they are conspecific and is indistinguishable from the standard Lithops verruculosa. It can therefore be identified only when in flower. Lithops verruculosa is recognizable for the characteristic small shiny red verruculae or pimples on the face, and shows a large variety of flower colours and pink flowers are not so unusual, but the "Rose of Texas" has always pink flowers.  Habit: It form small groups up to 8 or more heads (usually 2-4).  Bodies (Paired leave): Medium to large, up to 25-34 mm long and 15-26 mm wide at the fissure. Top flattened to slightly convex, occasionally slightly concave up to 3 cm tall, bluish with blue margins. Face whitish through yellow to bronze and pink with small raised red warts on top surface, wrinkled, the warts mainly in the wrinkles; fissure shallow bordered by a line, 4-8 mm; lobes conjunct. Face reniform; lobes equal to unequal; opaque to translucent usually without an obvious window; almost smooth to somewhat rugose. Margins dentate with small peninsulas and numerous lines, but not always clearly distinguishable; Channels slightly impressed, irregular; Islands enclosed by the grooves, somewhat irregular. Rubrications evident and numerous, with small isolated round shining warts or pimples (a feature characteristic of this species), up to 1 mm in diameter, usually situated in the channels, slightly raised. Dusky dots not visible. Colours: Face grey or beige tinged with pink, yellow, light brown, lilac, green or blue. Windows & channels translucent greyish, brownish or reddish green, or greenish brown or bluish or greenish grey. Rubrications dark blood-red or purplish red, usually clear and slightly shiny, sometimes deeper set, covered with a bluish film, and then obscurely bluish red. Shoulders bluish grey or greyish blue contrasting with the margins. Flowers: Small to medium sized (25-35 mm in diameter) shell-pink to rose; often with a contrasting tint or inner ring of mauve or magenta, which may extend up onto the stamens. Fruits. Seed capsules 6-8 long 5-7 mm in diameter, (4-)5(-6)-chambered, boat-shaped, top flat. Face elliptic to almost round.  Seeds: Yellow-brown, smooth to rugose. New:A popular and sought after succulent. Lithops have paired leaves with smooth flat or rounded tops that are ridged or wrinkled, sometimes with transparent windows, and sometimes colorful markings. The flowers are white or yellow and emerge in autumn or winter. Lithops are relatively easy to grow if given sufficient sun and a suitable well-drained soil.

Contributed by @sushiwaitress

• 

  Full sun to partial shade

• 

  Very little water

• 

  Not Frost hardy

• 

  Light and free draining