cone plant
Conophytum latin

Businesses flourished on Main Street in the 50s and the Cone plants became the largest producers of corduroy in the world, employing over 1000 people in 1981.

The plants are also known as knopies (buttons), waterblasies (water blisters), sphaeroids, conos, cone plants, dumplings, or button plants.

Hemitomes is a monotypic genus of plants containing the single species Hemitomes congestum, which is known as gnome plant and cone plant.

This is a list of species in the genus Conophytum.

The genus was neither recognised nor validly named until the name Conophytum was published 101 years later.

Conophytum species are dwarf cushion-forming or single-bodied succulents.

Conophytum jucundum is a species of succulent plants belonging to the Aizoaceae family.

Conophytum jucundum are dwarf plants with small succulent evergreen leaves, forming in their development small colonies.

Conophytum maximum Tischer (1957)

Conophytum jucundum subsp.

Conophytum jacobsenianum Tischer (1956)

Conophytum praegratum Tischer (1954)

Conophytum admiraalii L.Bolus (1965)

Conophytum geyeri L.Bolus (1963)

Conophytum longistylum N.E.Br.

Pebble-plants or living stones (e.g. Lithops, Conophytum) have reduced their leaves to just two, forming a fleshy body, only the top of which may be visible above ground.

Aizoaceae - Lithops (about 60 taxa) and similar genera (Conophytum, Dinteranthus, and Gibbaeum).