Contest 60 : Discussion and related Pictures

Jens · Post by **Jens** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 8:22 pm

Please discuss the topics of the Picture contest 60: Lithops and Conophythum in here.

iann · Post by **iann** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 8:54 pm

A double contest? I'm going to have to have a long long look through my photo album ....

Meanwhile here's some to keep your eyes busy.

Arjen · Post by **Arjen** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 7:07 am

aww!! I can't join this one.. unless pleiospilos is accepted.. is it?

Jens · Post by **Jens** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 3:59 pm

Hello, I sorry to have posted two of the anouncements. Darryl took care of one already.- Thanks Darryll.
@arjen: I would guess any smaller growing succulent with kind of spherical outline will be ok.

Arjen · Post by **Arjen** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 7:45 am

thanks!

Jens · Post by **Jens** » Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:47 pm

That is one nice flower!

frangipani · Post by **frangipani** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 6:29 am

Unfortunately I only have one Lithops (it's the only one I haven't killed yet) and it's not all that photogenic at the moment. Oh well, I can still enjoy all the other pictures!

Arjen · Post by **Arjen** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 7:18 am

again, thank you!

this is actually my only non-cactus succulent

Post by **daiv** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:01 pm

Well, I think I can actually come up with a picture that I took at a nursery, but I sure don't have my own plants. I swiftly killed the only two Lithops I ever had.

iann · Post by **iann** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:32 pm

daiv wrote:Well, I think I can actually come up with a picture that I took at a nursery, but I sure don't have my own plants. I swiftly killed the only two Lithops I ever had.

Say it isn't so

Post by **daiv** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:34 pm

Ian, it's true. But to be clear, I haven't read your posts here regarding Lithops growing care and just treated them like cacti! So if I get more, I will be studying the cultivation posts.

iann · Post by **iann** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:38 pm

I've entered the competition. No flowers, no spectacular 100-year-old plants, but a picture that says everything that I find fascinating about Lithops.

The day before my competition photo was taken, I saw a Lithops move. The dry sheath cracked open before my eyes and this is the photo I took a minute or two later. Interesting to see how much the plant expanded in 24 hours.

On a completely different note, I have some Conophytums too.

hob · Post by **hob** » Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:58 pm

i was tempted with the flower colour of this one but chose a different one in the end

iann · Post by **iann** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 12:09 am

What is that, a yellow flower on a plant that looks like L. karasmontana? Is it L. bromfieldii?

hob · Post by **hob** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 12:13 am

no idea

they are all just lithops to me

same image again,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,the others in the pot might not be the same