Mar 31, 2010

Dyckia marnier-lapostollei var. estevesii

Dyckia marnier-lapostollei has many regional varieties the estevesii is just one of them.
The flowers of this variety do not open and the masculine parts are spitted out of the closed flower
from a very smal hole amid the tip of the petals.
This is a young plant , in time the spines get bigger and farer apart from each other.


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