Dec 8, 2009

Dyckia estevesii

The world famous and desired Fan Dyckia
native to The Araguaian Region in Brazil.

This plant is absolutely sterile.
No one ever produced viable seed from plants such like these.
It is not just self infertile it is sterile.

Seeds that produces plants like these comes from normal
looking spiral plant.
The fan effect that occurs in percentage of the seedling seems to sterilize the plant.
So no fan plant produces seeds from its flowers.

So how come it is a species?
That´s a mystery only to be solved by The History of Taxonomy.

Dyckias are great even when fooling us.






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