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I'm glad it is meant to be a 'Rubra' Kris.... I thought the poor thing might be pink with cold!!
Another perfectly grown plant Kris, the master grower! I grow many other Lithops in my collection but can't grow this one - our vervet monkey population are drawn to it because of its colour (resembling ripe fruit) and will do nearly anything to get at it. Of course they just chew the top off and discard the rest of the plant on discovering that it doesn't taste anything like ripe fruit!
First plant to bloom in my garden this year: January 4: still blooming today and likely to do so whenever the temperature exceeds 15C for the next frew months. Foliage is supposed to mimic limestone and it was first discovered when a botanist sat on a rock and he felt it sink a bit...proving the posterior can be an effective extremity for botanical discovery!Titanopsis calcareaedit by maggi to add plant name to text -to allow search facility to find it.