Apr 30, 2010

Dyckia species marnier-lapostollei affinis X Dyckia goehringii

What would come up from this love affair?
How to know if we do not try?
We need new trials, new hybrids made with new plants, new looks, new beauties...


Dyckia species marnier-lapostollei affinis

This fantastic new finding was once taken as Dyckia marnier-lapostollei giant form.
This in fact is a brand new Dyckia species and three folds the size of the biggest
known marnier-lapostollei.

It is flores are red and just a very few in every tall flowers stalk.


Dyckia joanae-marcioi

Dyckia joanae-marcioi
This is not a small plant but it is a beautiful one.
It can get better indument coated.


Dyckia beateae


Dyckia delicata

Hard job to decide which is the most stunning....

Apr 29, 2010

Dyckia fosteriana



Dyckia splendens
Santa Catarina native to.
Look these spines...a wonderful, extraordinary and rare plant.
Its flowers staks are emerging, at last.
Maybe this is the most important Dyckia discovery in the last  ten years in Brazil.


Dyckia Brasília ..pinkish spines



New Hybrid

Dyckia Platyphylla (with Capital letter as it is not a species)
X
Dyckia fosteriana


New Dyckia species from Mato Grosso

New unnamed Dyckia species form Mato Grosso
Grows well within an indian reserve.
Another ultra , super silver Dyckia.
It gets larger than this here. This plant is in Mato Grosso
under studies...

Apr 28, 2010

Dyckia delicata red, nothing is so spectacular in the Dyckia´s World

Dyckia delicata Red
Fantastic shape and size,
beautiful color.
Nice balance of hues in white, wine, reds...
...soft spines.
This plant is the dream plant of every soul on The Dyckia´s World.



Mother Africa is one of the darkest hybrid Dyckias.

Dyckia Mother Africa

..all is fair in love.....

Two ultra super rare plants got together here:
yckia pectinata and Dyckia species São Tomé das Letras.
What will we have?


...an affair to remember....

Dyckia pectinata
X
Dyckia goehringii x  Dyckia pectinata
What is going to come up from this unchained affair/
Who knows?....this is the magic on Dyckias: who knows?
Dyckia pectinata does not make self  seeds. It is an extremely rare planta and just of  of the few I have was in bloom so why waste a precious thinh like this....This already pectinatica cross will do fine and fine it did: all the flowers transformed into fruits...

These are  Pectinatic flower stalks and every flower is already turning into fruits.
The upper stalk is Dyckia  gradeae crossed and the one below is Dyclia lascívia crossed.




Dyckia ferruginea

Dyckia ferruginea

Big, beautiful and rare... here, there and everywhere.


Dyckia delicata

Dyckia delicata
Some plants does allure us. They seem to hold something much special and unique that keep us
all lusting for them. It seems that somethin well hidden inside our braisn is awaked to recognize these plants as desirable, wisheable, beautiful.
Promptly we recognize such plants.
Dyckia delicata, Dyckia fosteriana, Dyckia marnier-lapostollei they all excell alluring.

Apr 27, 2010

Dyckia sp Vila Cristina - Caxias do Sul - Rio Grande do Sul

Stunning and a gorgeous different look


Dyckia delicata type form from Barros Cassal - Rio Grande do Sul

Stunning, to say nothing.


Dyckia delicata cyanophylla from Barros Cassal - Rio Grande do Sul

Dyckia delicata is a Dyckia Complex that deserves a better understanding.


Dyckia delicata from Tomba Bodes Slope in Barros Cassal - Rio Grande do Sul

Undoubtlessly one of the most dazziling Dyckia
 species of all.
Rare and special this is a dream plant!


Fan Dyckias shoots are very hard to be separated from their mother plants.
They are well attached to their mothers.

Now imagine a red one fan Dyckia...soon it will be reallity...



Fan Dyckia

Fan Dyckias are hard to find ´cause they reproduce ony by  off shooting sprouts.
This is not a true species. They are foiund in nature but fan formed plants 
are an aberration and sterile chimeras.

We were all made believe this plant was not self fertile  and that was the reson for the bad seed results.
The true Dyckia estevesii plant is  a normal looking one whose seeds give birth so some fan and sterile malformations.
These plants here are chimeras and not species.
Beautiful ones, indeed!
If the plant reproduced by seeds we would already have silver, red, white and variegated ones.