Dyckia beateae

Dyckia beateae type

Dyckia beatea is one of the commonest  Mato Grosso species outside Brazil.

It is easily seen all around the world.

Beatea hardly gets  a charming  beautiful rosette.

It ca not be compared to those species we find here in the South.

Dyckia beateae almost always presents a distorted  figure.

It is a real challenge to produce a  well shaped  exemplar of Dyckia beateae.

Dyckia beatea was foun in Mato Grosso close to a giant rock and  science forgot to search on the rock.

There,on a flat area we find a most beautiful colored plant and most probably the  type form as it was described as type is a affinis of the real thing that live up on the rocks. 

Also recently another beateae was found in Barra do Garças all by chance by a cacti collector.

Both forms I will show here.

When the  name in Dyckia I do not trust  a rot tooth on what science says!!

Specially when the plant is described by someone who never set foot here or  is just a passer by.

I saw  hybrid cultivars being described as species..as my mother used to say: "Paper accepts anything, I trust the written word when I can read his eyes". She was born in 1912!!! She  would be a centennial if still alive...and concerning to that "science" and in another words and well updated ones: I give a shit!