Lithops – Treasures of the Veld

Contents
Foreword	5
Introduction	6
Acknowledgements	6
Mammon and Enthusiasm, Entwined; A Little History	7
Coles to Newcastle, and Other Colonialists	10
Whittling Down Data	10
Lithops at Home	11
Map Rap	18
A Type Locality Map	20
Hide and Seek	22
Dry as a Stone	23
After Many a Summer …	23
Collection, Conservation, and Discovery	26
The Bad Seed?	26
Colour Visions and Thoroughbreds	27
Growing Lithops	28
Light in August	31
Truth in Packaging	31
Pollination, Patience, and the Fuller Fuller Brush-Man	33
Seed-Raising and Racing	34
Ease and Disease	35
Transmantled Beauties	36
Lithops and Their Lineage	37
Taxing Taxonomy, or, Order in the Hort	38
Descriptions and Proscriptions	42
A Note on the Photographs	45
Terms and Endearments	45
Author (Author)	47
The Species	48
Appendix 1 - Mysteries and Fantasies of the Lithosphere	115
Appendix 2 - Agony Column, or, Ask Mabel	116
Appendix 3 - The Brief Case of L. halenbergensis Tischer	118
Appendix 4.1 - A Bare Bones Species List	119
Appendix 4.2 - A Pruned Synonymy	120
Appendix 4.3 - A Chronology	123
Appendix 5 - N.E. Brown´s Lihops Collection	125
Appendix 6 - Dr. Geyer´s 1951 lecture	128
Appendix 7 - Notes on Two New Cultivars	132
Appendix 8 - Seed Size in Lithops	133
Appendix 9 - A Key to Lithops by Jonathan Y. Clark	135
Bibliography and References	141
Index	143
Sources of Lithops	147
Happily Ever Afterword	148

© 2013 Rafael M., Germany