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One poor lithops showed yellow stains that went worse with time. I didn't know whether that was fungus. However, I feared that it will infect the others in the pot and chose to throw it away. But before that it should contribute to science, so i dissected it carefully. I would be happy if I could save a lithops life and you would use my pics instead of dissecting such a cute plant on your own to get similar photos! The Lithops lobes derived from ordinary plant leaves: The top side transmits light and is hard coated for protection, the bottom side has microscopic apertures (stomata) for gas exchange. This is the same with Lithops, besides the "leaves" have got a huge water storage layer within. It is fully transparent, and photosynthesis is performed by the green cells near the sidewalls, which are the bottom side of the "leaf" and carry the gas exchange vents. Lithops are CAM-Plants, that means that they perform photosynthesis and gas exchange differently scheduled, to keep the stomata closed at daytime to reduce transpiration. The Lithops top side is called window due to its explicit transparency. Perfect: A red tinted window! On the one hand it transmits red light for photosynthesis and on the other it prevents the plant from looking green, so plant-eating animals won't find it. Inside the plant body, there is a next pair of lobes waiting to take over next year. The outer lobes will nourish the new lobes during their growth and are sacrificed in spring. So Lithops never afford more than two lobes, except when splitting up into two plants. When watered all time, they try to behave like "normal" plants and build up one pair of leaves after the other. This quickly causes heavy ruptures because their anatomy does not allow for that. |
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| Author | yellowcloud from Germany |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by yellowcloud at https://www.flickr.com/photos/63794141@N00/3137858909. It was reviewed on 3 March 2013 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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