Dyckia platyphylla is a classic Dyckia species. Everybody knows it... or thinks to know it.
The name means broad leafed Dyckia.
These above and below are not a Dyckia platyphylla.
These are a hybrid plants!
It is a Dyckia marnier-lapostollei and a Dyckia brevifolia cross.
They both resulted from seeds collected from the marnier lapostollei flowers stalk whose flowers
were pollinated by a Dyckia brevifolia pollen.
Here below we see a Dyckia platyphylla or what is meant to be one.
Dyckia platyphylla is a long ago known Dyckia species and it was used in many
hybrid makings. It usually gives white teeth and dark skin to its descents.
Dyckia platyphylla is to be living in Bahia second to its description.
Meanwhile no one has ever found a Dyckia platyphylla in nature since its description.
It is a long sought after and never found one.
Would this be just a fake, a joke?
Why this was never found in nature?
Is it an extremely retricted plant habitat, just a tiny area?
Is it so well hidden no one can find it?
Below we see another plant of Dyckia platyphylla tinted darker as usual.
Below we see another Dyckia platy...ups, no!
This is a Dyckia Mundo, a hybrid.
I would swear this is a Dyckia platyphylla...but it is not.
This is a hybrid I myself made.
But...see it again.. doesn´t it look exactely like a Dyckia platyphylla?
Are those young plants below platyphyllas?
Maybe! If you consider platyphylla a cultivar, yes, they are.
This plant below and above were made by myself using a
Dyckia marnier-lapostollei as mother plant and a Dyckia brevifolia
as a pollen donor or the father plant.
Many dyckias species are evolved in a kind of cloud due to many reasons and most are the fear to repeat what happened before to Orchids and then Cacti. Some taxonomists informed wrong directions to avoid
the plant to be disturbed in wilderness. This excessive care revealed to be desasterful to the plants as some got really lost forever in nature. Is this the case here?
Fact is, Science can´t fail with the true, there is no science when we base our efforts on a fake.
Look these plants here below: these are hybrids: Dyckia marnier-lapostollei X Dyckia brevifolia.
Is this below a Dyckia Patyphylla seedling?
No! This is a Dyckia Mundo, a hybrid.....or would it be platyphylla?
Dyckia Mundo, some turn to be rubra...
...the American say coke and in fact platyphylla is known as coke Dyckia.
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