Illustration of a terra cotta pot with a glowing, green, spineless cactus in it. The cactus has two equally-sized leaf-like lobes and it is covered in little green dots.
Safety Rating: Beneficial.
Environment: Cultivated parts of arid regions.
Details: Glowing Stone Cactus is a small, oval, pebble-like cactus that doesn’t have any spines. Once mature, it glows brightly day and night. While the light that it produces is white, its thick green skin tints the light green. Because the bright light that it produces uses energy, Glowing Stone Cactus can only live in ground that is infused with magic.
Lore: Glowing Stone Cactus is the primary ingredient used to create lampstones. Fifty years ago, Juniper Huckleberry led a team that found a way to combine some of the properties of the Tree of Eternal Sleep with that of Flashing Stone Cactus to create Glowing Stone Cactus for lampstone productions. The “Into the Research Garden” adventure has more details about this aspect of the cactus’ history.
Inspiration: The Glowing Stone Cactus is inspired by lithops, which is a genus of succulents often known as pebble plants or living stones that protect themselves by blending in with the surrounding rocks.
Glowing Stone Cactus is part of the Crossroads Setting for the tabletop role-playing game, Magic Goes Awry. Click here to go to the list of wild and whimsical magical plants from the Land of Crossroads.
