1. Usually unbranched usually spineless cactus covered with warty tubercles and having magenta flowers and white or green fruit; resembles the related mescal; northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States
   "The living rock cactus was perfectly camouflaged among the stones";
   - Ariocarpus fissuratus
    
2. Highly succulent stemless clump-forming plants with grey-green leaves similar in texture to lumps of granite; South Africa
   "The living rock plant was so well camouflaged that visitors often mistook it for an actual rock";
   - living granite, stone mimicry plant

Derived forms: living rocks

Type of: cactus, succulent

Part of: Ariocarpus, genus Ariocarpus, genus Pleiospilos, Pleiospilos

Encyclopedia: Living rock