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生石花养护（Lithops maintenance） Lithops maintenance Lithops (Lithops), known as the flower stone or living stones, the word Lithops is a combination of two Greek words: Lithop (meaning stone) and OPS (meaning alike), meaning is like a stone. In their country of origin, there are some very interesting names, such as beeskloutjies (small hoof), oogies (the eyes), Hottentottenpopos (Hottentot butt). Most plants are distributed in South Africa and Namibia (in Botswana also found a few species). The characteristics of these areas are wet summer (so-called rainy is actually very small, only relative to other seasons it local terms) and winter drought, there are a few varieties grown in South Africa in Western and Northern Cape region in winter and rainy season, however, all plants are used as a summer treat in artificial cultivation. In addition to the days of the sun, a few varieties of native land precipitation slightly more, most of them are very dry, and some varieties of native land annual rainfall of less than 5mm. Some plants (such as red in the original) although the extreme drought, but foggy, through fog or dew as the main means of access to water. We see Lithops body is the fact that it evolved into the water storage organ leaves, not only the two leaf and stem, root, leaf hypertrophy storing enough water, can survive for several months without rain in the dry season conditions; plants are small and low, can reduce the adverse effects of native and heat light. Lithops adapt to the arid environment evolution under domestication, without frequent watering and care, this is the need to attract enough attention, most of the deaths are due to excessive and frequent watering. Most plants are a year of vigorous growth period and florescence is in autumn (there are differences in different varieties of early flowering party). After flowering, new leaves begin to develop and absorb the vegetative growth of old leaves in winter and early spring until the old leaves completely