Dec 12, 2009

Dyckia fosteriana - Marialva-Paraná

Almost all Dyckia fosteriana varieties may get even whiter that this.
Protect it from the heavy or insisting rains or wind and it will turn white.
Dyckia fosteriana is A Dyckia Complex and not just a single type plant.
In nature we may find many, many fosteriana. Some are fantastic plants.
But do not go on thinking they are everywhere in Paraná. They are very endemic plants.
They live on small well hidden populations sometimes just a few individuals.

Uncountable times peole say how lucky I am for having Dyckias in Wilderness and
uncountable time I say: It is far more easier to get a Dyckia in Paris or New York than here in Brazil also astonishing cheaper. Here you have to travel by plant, bus, car and even on foot for distances longer than Chicago to New York City or LA to Miami. Roads here are not those autobahn in Germany. It take days on journey to get a single new Dyckia species plant.
In Paris you may order from catalog and the whole plant is delivered to your door for just a very small fraction of would it could have cost here.
Her Dyckias are the most expensive in the world! Sometimes many thousand Us dollars are used to get a single new and different Dyckia species. Here we do not travel for free. Air companies do not get me there just cause I am handsome or my eyes are blue.
Imagine yourself climbing a tropical mountain in the middle of nowhere. Tropical mountains are covered by luxuriant almost impenetrable jungle.. them once up there you cannot just get down by flying you can not just spread your wings like the vultures do and take the air current down to Earth. One has to be in pristine health condition something like Hercules.... and also be rich and fool or dreamer enough to dare the Brazilian wilderness.
Any Dyckia trade is an outlaw work and forbidden by law.
All Dyckias species are taken as endangered species and are protected no matter where it is in nature. So one Dyckia entrepreneur must be fit like a bull, brave as Indiana Jones, daring like an old Greek god and also an out law guy in order to get a single Dyckia plant from our wilderness.
The new or recent found Brazilian Dyckia species when seem abroad we may think of smuggling and be certain it is not a legal creature.
Preservation is made creating and take good care of parks and reserves.
It is a role to the big specialized Botanic Gardens to help to keep the pure strain species.
But pure strain are kept in wilderness only!
Getting a plant back may be a wort crime than taking it out as introducing a new gene and a strange one is a possible danger we can count on.




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