Amazing flowers are shaped like pebbles

With a strange, unique appearance that resembles pebbles, this plant species is almost invisible to the eyes of humans and herbivores and thirsty. If you don't bloom, you can hardly recognize them in the pebbles of Africa.

From the outer appearance of the same stones and stones, this small plant has the scientific name Lithopturbuniformis (listhops means stone; opsis means shape), Lithops for short.

This is a kind of succulent plant native to southern African countries belonging to the genus of flowering plants in the Aizoaceae family.They are called by some other names such as jelly, jade stone, lotus stone, cactus, pebble, stone flower, gravel.

A stone pebble tree consists of one or more tuber-shaped pairs, almost fused to face each other and almost no root.

The gap between leaves contains meristem producing new flowers and leaves.

Thick stone-like leaves to store enough water for plants exist for months without rain in desert areas and dry places.

Stones and gravel trees have many different colors such as cream, gray, brown, blue, even transparent trees, see the internal organs.From the top, look at an egg-shaped pebble flower with a cone from the bottom of the tree.

Their flowers are very beautiful, fragrant in the rain.The flowers are white and yellow as they emerge from extremely fancy stones.After that will quickly bead and spread.

Seeds of stone pebbles are easy to germinate.Young trees are very vulnerable, they need 1-2 years to stabilize the roots.In the third year, the plant starts to flower.

Stone pebbles often bloom in autumn, flowers grow from cracks, and have a diameter of 4 - 5cm.

This is a non-toxic tree, even children in some African countries use them to quench their thirst.