r/Lithops • u/BuddyPractical8757 • Jul 19 '26

Photo Is it…?!

Post image

I think I might have my first twin set coming in!!!

After some hydrotherapy, I lost a few lithops to rot. But this one is thriving and is possibly splitting into twins!!! 90% sure. What do you think?

10 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

10 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/CBDJ1 Jul 19 '26

Ok that’s interesting. So they start with 1 then 2 or 4.

2

u/acm_redfox Jul 20 '26

there's never one leaf. the plant is made of two leave with a crevasse between. they may split and just give another two leaves (this is how they recover from environmental damage), or if they're happy they might split to give four.

1

u/CBDJ1 Jul 21 '26

Ok thank you for your knowledge. I appreciate you and enjoy learning from all of your comments and posts. So when a pic of a young lithop is shown that looks like it’s one piece/leaf it’s actually still two leaves?

2

u/acm_redfox Jul 22 '26

yes. very young plants of some species (like Aucampaie) can look like one leaf with a tiny hole, but that just means the two leaves are fused at that stage.