Lithops dinteri

A small living stone from southern Namibia and the adjacent Northern Cape, with flat reddish-brown windows often marked with red dots and yellow flowers. It follows the usual Lithops cycle: water in the late-summer and autumn growth season, keep dry through winter and the spring leaf change.

At home, aim for

Day Cool-growingTargets in Plantistry

Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry

Humidity Dry airBand in Plantistry

Light Full sunDLI and PPFD in Plantistry

Expects a seasonal restGrows in the ground

Where it grows wild

Arid gravel and rocky flats, where the bodies sit flush with the ground and match the colour of the stones.

One record site at about 850 m in far southern Namibia.

NamibiaNorthern Cape

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates

✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it

✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light

✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it

✓ Substrate and airflow

✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY 4.0 licence, unmodified.