Stones and wood
Honeycomb stone
Pale limestone worn full of holes and tunnels, perfect for tucking plants into.
What the simulation uses
- Holds water
- 11.5 % by volume
- Water it keeps after draining; the rest runs down to the drainage.
- Pore space
- 27.5 % by volume
- Room for air and water between grains; low means roots suffocate when wet.
- Weight
- 1600 g/L
- How heavy a litre is.
- pH
- 7.8 to 8.5 pH
- How acid it keeps the soil.
Description
Pale limestone worn full of holes and tunnels, perfect for tucking plants into. Like all limestone it slowly raises the pH of the water around it.
Also called Texas holey rock, holey limestone.
Estimated, where sources were thin: look authored for the app; physical values estimated.