Cultivars are identified by adding to the scientific name of the plant a word or phrase (often of English origin) beginning with a capital letter and placed between single quotation marks (eg Lithops dinteri ‘Dintergreen’).
Cultivars have three main origins :
1 – a change of color of the flower (yellow of vallis-mariae vs. white of ‘Valley’s Girl’)
2 – a change of color of the epidermis (mauve of dinteri vs. green of ‘Dintergreen’)
3 – a genetic selection focused on a particular form of drawing (lines of schwantesii vs. network of ‘Nutwerk’)
To access a precise description, to know the origin of the cultivar and to understand the meaning of its name, consult the sheets of the cultivars in the encyclopedia of the Cactus Francophone.
Cultivars distinguished by a change of color of the flower.
For each pair of gallery photos, left: normal flower color, right: aberrant flower color.
Lithops aucampiae cv. ‘Storms’s Snowcap’ (C392)
Aberration of color of the flower (white instead of yellow) appeared in the seedlings of Ed Storms at Azle (Texas, USA).
Lithops lesliei var. minor cv. ‘Witblom’ (C006A)
Aberration of color of the flower (white instead of yellow) discovered in the C006 wild population by N. and D. Cole.
Lithops verruculosa cv. ‘Rose of Texas’ (C159A)
Aberration of color of the flower (pink instead of yellow or orange) appeared, in 1985, in the seedlings of Ed Storms at Azle (Texas, USA).
Cultivars distinguished by a change of color of the epidermis.
For each pair of gallery photos, left: normal epidermis color, right: aberrant epidermis color.
Lithops aucampiae cv. ‘Jackson’s Jade’
Aberration of epidermis color (yellow green instead of brown) appeared in Tim Jackson’s seedlings at Whitter in California (USA).
Lithops aucampiae cv. ‘Rudesheim Ruby’
Aberration of epidermis color (garnet red instead of brown) appeared in Jossie Brandt’s seedlings in Rudesheim near Griquatown in South Africa.
Lithops bromfieldii var. glaudinae cv. ‘Embers’
Aberration of epidermis color (garnet red instead of brown) appeared in Steven Hammer seedlings in Vista (California, USA).
Lithops bromfieldii var. insularis cv. ‘Sulphurea’ (C362)
Aberration of epidermis color (yellow green instead of brown) appeared in 1958, in Yasuhiko Shimada seedlings in Japan.
Lithops hallii var. ochracea cv. ‘Green Soapstone’ (C111A)
Aberration of epidermis color (yellow green instead of orange) appeared in M.E. Huysamen’s seedlings in South Africa.
Lithops hookeri var. dabneri cv. ‘Annarosa’
Aberration of epidermis color (green instead of beige) appeared in Giuseppe Piccione’s seedlings in Padova (Italy).
Lithops julii cv. ‘Peppermint Crème’
Aberration of epidermis color (pale green instead of gray) appeared in Lettie Pretorius’s seedlings in South Africa.
Lithops julii ssp. fulleri cv. ‘Fullergreen’ (C056A)
Aberration of epidermis color (green instead of brown) appeared in C056 population located near Hopetown in South Africa.
Lithops julii ssp. fulleri cv. ‘Limelight’
Aberration of epidermis color (body mint green and brown channels instead of beige) appeared in C259 population in Steven Hammer seedlings in Vista (California, USA).
Lithops karasmontana cv. ‘Lateritia’
Aberration of epidermis color (red-brown apex instead of beige) appeared in Moritz Dinter seedlings.
Lithops lesliei cv. ‘Storms’s Albinigold’ (C036B)
Aberration of epidermis color (yellow green instead of green) appeared in the seedlings of Ed Storms at Azle (Texas, USA).
Lithops leslieie var. venteri cv. ‘Ventergreen’
Aberrations of epidermis color (green instead of gray) appeared in Yasuhiko Shimada seedlings in Japan.
Lithops marmorata cv. ‘Polepsky Smaragd’
Aberration of epidermis color (pale green instead of gray) appeared in Vladimir Vojacek’s seedlings at Polepy in the Tchek Republic.
Lithops meyeri cv. ‘Hammeruby’
Aberration of color of the flower (ruby red instead of green) discovered in the C006 wild population by N. and D. Cole and fixed by Steven Brack and Steven Hammer.
Lithops salicola cv. ‘Sato’s Violet’
Aberration of epidermis color (violet instead of gray) appeared in Tony Sato’s seedlings in Japan.
Lithops terricolor cv. ‘Green Sandpoort’
Aberration of epidermis color (chartreuse green instead of brown) appeared in a wild population near Springbok in South Africa.
Lithops terricolor cv. ‘Speckled Gold’
Aberration of epidermis color (yellow green instead of brown) discovered in the wild population of C345 by J. van Schalkwyk, near Prince Albert in South Africa.
Cultivars distinguished by a change of color of the flower and epidermis.
For each pair of gallery photos, left: normal color, right: aberrant color.
Lithops aucampiae cv. ‘Betty’s Beryl’ (C389)
Color aberrations of flowers (white instead of yellow) and epidermis (yellow green instead of brown) appeared in Johnson’s Cactus Gardens seedlings in California (USA).
Lithops aucampiae cv. ‘Bellaketty’
Color aberrations of flowers (white instead of yellow) and epidermis (green instead of brown) appeared in Giuseppe Piccione seedlings in Padova (Italy).
Lithops lesliei cv. ‘Albinica’ (C036A)
Natural color variation of the epidermis (green and yellow green instead of dark green and brown) and flowers (white instead of yellow) observed only in one locality near Warrenton (C036) in South Africa.
Lithops fulviceps cv. ‘Aurea’ (C363)
Color aberrations of flowers (white instead of yellow) and epidermis (Chartreuse green instead of brown) appeared in Yasuhiko Shimada seedlings in Japan.
Cultivars distinguished by a change of the apex drawings.
For each pair of gallery photos, left: normal drawing, right: selected drawing.
Lithops julii cv. ‘Hot Lips’ (C183A)
Exaggeration of the drawing of wild specimens of C183 selected by Steven Hammer in California (USA).
Lithops julii cv. ‘Kikushogyoku’
Original drawings looking like a shrub with red branches and brown foliage. Cultivar fixed by Kisata Tanaka in Japan, from plants existing in Japanese collections since the 1990s.
