Growing up on the east coast, our landscape was filled with azaleas, palmetto trees and yellow jasmine. While we still love our east coast terrain we find something extra special in the succulent topography that is Southern California. We're always on the lookout for cool and interesting new succulents to fill our outside steps. So when we found these living stones at Trader Joe's last week, we had to take a closer look. More after the jump.
Look!: Living Stones
While browsing through the fresh flowers outside our local Trader Joe's, we spotted these interesting looking stones. We really weren't even sure they were stones, and since they were in a clay plant pot our interest was piqued. After a closer inspection we realized these stones are actually succulent plants. You may also recognize this plant by its scientific name, Lithos, but they are sometimes referred to as Stoneface, Pebble Plants, Flowering Stones, Mimicry Plant (with the most popular being Living Stones).
Because they are so easy to grow (requiring very little water and exposure to abundant light), we think they'd be great house plants for us--back story is we don't have a green thumb.
Do you have any experience with Living Stones?
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I have several lithops. Some of which are incredibly slow-growing, but most of them are low maintenance and add great ground coverage for an outdoor succulent garden.
view Kimber's profile
i picked up one of these last week because i thought it looked like a lung. hopefully it will be ok in my terrarium with a few other succulents.
view kiljoywashere's profile
I saw these a couple years ago - I thought they looked like brains (lungs is a better one). They're kind of skeevy now for me.
view jamiealyse's profile
I actually had some living stones during a houseplant phase when I was in grade school. My mom and I searched far and wide until we finally found some for sale in a neighboring town. Unfortunately I didn't read up on how to take care of them, because they got mushy and died within weeks. When I see them now, they sort of creep me out........
view kschultz78's profile
I tend to kill them, sadly enough... I do okay with all kinds of other plants, but somehow the living stones do not live... I have two of them right now, and I am trying really hard to keep them alive, but i have to say they are starting to look bad (I swear I did not over-water, but I may have under-watered (is that even possible?))...
view lemonadefish's profile
They are actually called lithops, not lithos. Here is a link to their wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithops
view scarlethue's profile
Thanks for the correction scarlethue! Totally missed that one.
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