Sep 29, 2009

New found one: Dyckia spissa (proposed name)

New and unamed Dyckia from Paraná East mountains.
Lives also facing the Atlantic Ocean but way up the mountain.
This plant was found in one single spot. In nature it doesn´t look this way.
In wilderness they are smaller and densely crowded up to the point of forming a dense
carpet on the stone and repeating the rock form.
One single plant produced this many sprouts in less than a year.
Flowers are said to be yellow and conspicuous in numerous flowers stems.
It must be a very nice scene the thick carpet covering the large rock and at full bloom.
There was so isolated clump nor any single plant to be seen.
There may exist some more populations but I saw just one.
This is worth while to comeback in order to take pictures with the carpet of plants in full bloom.
The proposed name here is Dyckia spissa (crowded).


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