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Lithops julii C349A 45 km SE of Warmbad, Namibia cv. Peppermint creme

Family: AIZOACEAE · Cultivar of Lithops julii

Description

Lithops julii C297A cv. Peppermint Crème is a very distictive blue-green form derived from only one specimen collected by Leslie Pretorius in 1983 in Namibia. Margins and islands very pale milky bluish green and shoulders a little lighter than the margins. Lip-smears pale brownish green. Channels opaque pale milky bluish grey.

Remarks: It is also known with the field number C349A.

Origin and Habitat

45 km South-East of Warmbad, Namibia (Type locality).

Cultivation and Propagation

Easy to grow it tolerates a degree more excess water than some particular hydrophobic species, even so it must have a very open mineral, fast draining mix with little compost and a high degree of grit, coarse sand, small lava gravel or pebbles. Give them the maximum amount of light you are able to give them, but care should be taken about exposing them to the full blast of the sun rays in summer. Such tiny plants can easily get scorched or broiled and their appearance spoiled (this may not matter in the wild, where the Lithops have probably shrunk into the ground and becomes covered with sands).

Basic cultivation routine: Stop watering after flowering. Start watering after the old leaves completely dry. (Usually late March or Early April) Water freely during the growing season, soak the compost fully but allow it to dry out between waterings, no water when cold. Some growers fertilize frequently, some hardly ever. Keep them dry during the winter. Nearly all problems occur as a result of overwatering and poor ventilation especially when weather conditions are dull and cool or very humid. If too much water is supplied the plants will grow out of character, bloat, split and rot. Keep them in small pots as solitary clumps or as colonies in large, shallow terracotta seed pans.

Bibliography

Major refences and further lectures

  1. Heidrun E. K. Hartmann “Aizoaceae F – Z” Springer 2002

  2. Achim Hecktheuer “Mesembs, mehr als nur Lithops” Books on Demand GmbH Norderstedt. 2008

  3. Desmond T. Cole & Naureen A. Cole, Uwe Beyer, Yves Delange “Les Lithops” SUCCULENTES Spécial 2008 AIAPS (now Terra seca). 2008

  4. Desmond T. Cole & Naureen A. Cole “LITHOPS Flowering Stones” Cactus & Co. Libri. 2005

  5. Yasuhiko Shimada “The Genus Lithops” Dobun Shoin. 2001

  6. Steven A. Hammer “Lithops – Treasures of the veld” British Cactus and Succulent Society. 1999

Gallery

Lithops julii C349A 45 km SE of Warmbad, Namibia cv. Peppermint creme (Lithops julii C297A TL: 45 km SE of Warmbad, Namibia cv. Peppermint Crème)
Lithops julii C349A 45 km SE of Warmbad, Namibia cv. Peppermint creme (Lithops julii C297A TL: 45 km SE of Warmbad, Namibia cv. Peppermint Crème)© Agócs György · source · CC-BY-SA