Dyckia brevifolia - Itajaí River Valley - Subida - Santa Catarina

At this point the Itajaí-açu River gets rapid
and its waters turn into white running waters.

It is the Dyckia brevifolia home.
See some Dyckia brevifolia clumps at the other side.

Here you notice some banana trees indicating the tropical landscape.
Look the amount of leftovers from the last flood still too visible.

These are part of the river rapids.
Notice the house at the right up corner.

Dyckias can get this close to the water in normal leveled waters.

Here some Dyckias up the rocks but the river gets there too.

This bush is extremely rare and only found here at this point of the river.
It is Raulinoa echinata.
Also a plant describe by Father Raulino Reitz who described Dyckia reitz.

This Dyckia brevifolia clump is composed by the extremely rare red flowered
Dyckia brevifolia. There was a kind of legend telling about a red flowered Dyckia brevifolia but no one ever supposed it could be real. Still the flowers are to seem here. They are late summer bloomers. The normal yellow flowered Dyckia brevifolia blooms in early Spring.

The last flood brought the drift wood.
Dyckias were under water.

Here you see some Dyckias and the rare Raulinoa echinata.

The floods bring floating material and trash.
People still have a long way ahead to get educated.
Our children and young people are not capable of this anymore.
Education forms and transforms human beings.
Some years ago you would see a sea of trash and plastic here.
We already have done a lot in order to preserve the wilderness.

Look the signals of flooding here.