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Nepenthes sp. Misool growing as a lithophyte in Raja Ampat, New Guinea. Lithophytes are plants that grow in or on rocks.They can be classified as either epilithic (or epipetric) or endolithic; epilithic lithophytes grow on the surfaces of rocks, while endolithic lithophytes grow in the crevices of rocks (and are also referred to as chasmophytes). [1]
Commercial growers mix a mild fungicide or weak strength horticultural sulfur into the plant's water to prevent rotting. Lithops are sensitive to watering during hot weather, which can cause the plants to rot; in habitat the plants are often dormant when the temperatures are high, doing most of their growing during the cool months of the year.
Plug plants are very useful if the sowing window is missed, and plugs can be purchased quickly to replace a crop which has failed. As a garden develops, interplanting (intercropping) existing crops with plugs plants, ideally companion plants, can improve the productivity of the space and so maximise harvests – a sown crop may not be able to ...
Typically, plants found in rock gardens are small and do not grow larger than 1 meter in height, [12] though small trees and shrubs up to 6 meters may be used to create a shaded area for a woodland rock garden. If used, they are often grown in troughs or low to the ground [13] to avoid obscuring the eponymous rocks. The plants found in rock ...
Lithophyte – Growing on rocks Endolithic – growing in crevices of rocks. Epilithic – growing on the surface of rocks. Mallee – a term applied to certain Australian species which grow with multiple stems springing from an underground lignotuber. Parasitic – using another plant as a source of nourishment.
E. 'Ballerina' (ACRA reference: ACC469) is a larger flowered form with pink flowers rimmed with red, collected from a plant in western Tasmania in 1986. It is a paler pink than 'Pink Cloud'. E. 'Dumpling' is a compact white-flowered form to 1 metre high developed in the UK by Suttons of Devon. E. 'Gillanders' Rose' is a pink flowered form.
Pleiospilos nelii, the split rock, splitrock or living granite, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Aizoaceae, native to South Africa. It grows in semi-arid areas with rainfall of between 150mm and 300mm, in the Karoo of South Africa.
The species has a shrubby growth form. [8] The plant has oval entire leaves, and unisexual flowers on short stalks. In the male flowers, which are numerous, the stamens are sixteen in number and arranged in pairs; the female flowers are solitary, with traces of stamens, and a smooth ovary with one ovule in each of the eight cells—the ovary is ...