Living Stone

Japanese: living stone(英語表記)livingstone
Living Stone

…It is distributed in South Africa and Namibia. Its English name is living stone, stoneface, flowering stone, mimicry plant. It usually has no stem, and the pair of leaves that join at the bottom are spherical and fleshy, but the tips are trapezoidal, with transparent and dark areas above them, forming complex patterns that are used to identify the species. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "living stone" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…南アフリカとナミビアに分布する。英名はliving stone,stoneface,flowering stone,mimicry plant。通常,茎はなく,下部で合着した一対の葉は球状に多肉化するが,先端は台形で,その上には透明部や濃色部分があり,複雑な斑紋をなし,種を識別する特徴にされる。…

※「living stone」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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