Some Dyckias make these perfect crown like structures. This is a way to protect the plant from the fiercing Sun and create a micro climate tht preserves the umidity in the air around the foliage.
This umidity is taken by the indument present on and under the leaves.
Highly indumented or scaled plants are more apt to survoive watger hostile enviroment as they can absorb more efficiently the water present in the atmosphere.
Spines are not meant for defense they are structures that dissipate heat and help the conpy to hold the more umid air around the plant.
We must observe Dyckias a lot more in order to understand these magnificent beings.
Nothing is worthless in Nature, for nothing or no proposal. Nature has no energy to be spent for nothing. There is no wasting here.
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