This is a brand new found from Chapada dos Guimarães way deep inside the very heart of South America, Mato Grosso close to its capital city of Cuiabá.
Brazil has many more Dyckias to show than you might imagine.
We still have plenty of extremely remote areas and also we have an enormous number of inaccessible cliffs and mountains some in the middle of nowhere with no roads nor way to reach but days and days of walking. Some mountain tops, rocky mountain tops are so difficult to be reached we need all that climbing gear ( ropes and hooks and reals) and the abilities of a champion climber and also some 30 years less in age.( ..or better yet the physique of a Miura bull, those Spanish ones.)
Brazil is a vast territory and above all: it is green year around. Our mountains are ever green and usually covered almost to the top with a luxuriant quite impenetrable tropical jungle.
We have just seen a very small amount of our Dyckia species and we understand them in even less amount. My country is so vast and its nature so pristine we have Humans to be known!!!
We still contact humans by the very first time! Our Amazon region is the house of people that never has had contact with the white man!!! We are almost in the middle of 2010!
New monkeys species are found even here in South and this is fantastic as monkeys are
antropomorphic animals. Our cities are getting huge and roads are going further and further.
Our knowledge on what we have has been duplicated many folds recently and our Universities are deeply interested in knowing and understanding our wilderness. Our major Universities do have a close relation of mutual help and kwoning changes with the most prestigious Universities of the World.
European and American most prestigious Knowledge sources are in intimate job with Brazilian Universities.
This is something to celebrate for Earth is our Home, the only house we all share.
I do believe the more we share the more we get better.
We still need and deserve to get rid of cancer, aids, hepatitis... We deserve to live longer and better.
We recently in Brazil extinguished hunger and this is an accomplishment of the most extreme value.
We have no more hunger no more hungry people!!!
People are made to believe our tropical jungle hold the answer for many human maladies as a huge supermarket where we find everything. This is not so...
The answer we need to get to our rippers and tragedies are way deep inside our brains and not our jungles. Without the knowing the searches and the reasearches we get nothing.
The Universities may be and continue being one of our main sources of the Human Knowing.
They build knowing!
Hurry up than, Hurry up.
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One thing is what is known and known by Botany the other quite different is reality. Botany knows of a minimal fraction of what is out there to be found.
As Dyckias are able to thrive in such remote and almost impossible to reach places they represent some of the last chances of one discovering a absolutely new and never seen flowering plant.
Dyckias are a kind of last change for those who want to eternize their names.
I do think people names are fit on hybrids and never on true species as they usually
hinder more than they help. When a plant gets a man´s name we have to know the man before the plant and this is a waste of time. If the new plant gets a Latin mame we at least know something of the plant as Latin always reveals a characteristic point of the plant.
Unfortunately people usually can´t resist the appeal and their names get eternalized in a bad way as many classifications when made in a hurry or when Dyckias are taken as common normal plants presents some mistakes.
Leave people names for streets and roads and parks and bridges and buildings and what-so-ever
man-made structures or hybrid plants.
Giving guys names to plant species is what we much properly say here: "putting farts in a strand". Farts instead of pearls.
We should wisely stop putting farts in a strand just to fullfil some human vanity.
Botanics have been a big Vanity Fair since long ago.
It is more than time to fix this once and forever.
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