Healthy Dyckia Roots

Click on the image to see an healthy Dyckia root.

These are the look a nice and healthy Dyckia root.
When dehydrated Dyckia roots die and the only portion to be seen is the central structure.
This central structure look like a fine wire. In this stage the root is died. In nature this death roots are used to hold substrate and hold the plant to the substrate. Those roots do no absorb anything. in those times Dickias feeds by the underside leaf stomata.

The healthy root must look like this one shown here.
If you let the substrate dry out completely the first plant structure to perish is the root system.
Dyckia do like water. This root is on the surface of the substrate ´cause there was a stone on it and under the stone always stays put some humidity. That root went there to take it.
When a root is like this it is very much breakable. It breaks like glass.