A community reference site
The community-built field guide to Lithops.
Forty species profiles, a guided identification tool, and care guides written for growers who want direct answers — no fluff, no keyword stuffing, just what works.
Featured species
Start with these.
Lithops aucampiae
Aucamp's living stone
Forgiving, copper-toned, and one of the best Lithops for a beginner.
Lithops optica'Rubra'
Red optica · Ruby living stone
A purple-red mutant of the green coastal optica — small, slow, and famously fussy.
Lithops karasmontana
Karasberg living stone · Mountain Lithops
A large, classic-looking Lithops with chalky-cream tops and rusty, brain-like windows.
Lithops gracilidelineata
Slender-lined living stone
Pale, almost porcelain body etched with fine, hair-thin dark lines.
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The three guides every new grower needs.
Identification & Diagnosis
How to identify which Lithops species you have
A practical framework — window, body color, marking style, origin — that gets you from 'mystery succulent' to a confident shortlist.
9 min read
Care Fundamentals
The Lithops watering calendar: a season-by-season guide
Two short growing windows, two long rest periods. The watering year for Lithops is not the same as for most other succulents.
10 min read
Care Fundamentals
The Lithops molting cycle, explained
Why a Lithops replaces its body every year, what's happening inside the leaves, and what you should and shouldn't do while it's happening.
10 min read
Built by growers
A reference written with the people who actually grow these plants.
We invite real Lithops growers — hobbyists, collectors, and small nurseries — to review species profiles, contribute photographs, and add climate-specific notes from their own experience. Every contributor is credited on the pages they help shape. Until invited growers are onboarded, all content is bylined to the Editorial Team, which is responsible for accuracy.
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