Arid House - Catalog of non-cactus A-Z (new sorting)
The gallery is sorted by caption, with caption first lines giving the family, followed by the binomial taxon (genus species), and second lines giving the year the shot was taken and a running image index.
A word of warning about my plant identifications, and plant taxonomy. I start with the name plaques or labels provided by the institution that owns the real plants. I proceed from there to do research on the internet, and possibly in printed reference books. The information on these tags is not always accurate. Misspellings occur, for example. Furthermore, plant taxonomy is in a state of flux. Genera get renamed, moved into and out of various families, clumped into a host of taxonomic sub-units. I'll try to provide the most current family, genus, and species names I can find, calling attention to instances where the info of the tags I show is clearly wrong or out of date. I welcome corrections by viewers who are more knowledgeable than I.
Representative lithops shot
Aizoaceae: Lithops species
2011M 09
See more images of lithops here: Note added 2017: Images of lithops of the Aizoaceae family, and other petite rock-like species that grow in the special case for them, are now in a separate gallery, here: https://arctangent.smugmug.com/ConservatoryPlants/Conservatory-Arid/Arid-House-uncataloged-and-unidentified-plants/Arid-House-Lithops-or-Living-Stone-species/
Lithops species; literally "stone face"
Native to southern Africa.
For a brief period each year, these 'living stones' seem to rise from the dead and burst forth with life.
November 4, 2011
Arid House of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens Conservatory
November2011MatthaeiMatthaei Botanical Gardensconservatoryplantsdesert plantssucculentaloeagavedryhotxericaridlithopsliving stonesbloomsbloomingflowersflowering
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