Dyckia hb Vampirete or when color gets to a uploaded limit....

Dyckias! They make it possible to dream and make our own  masterpieces.

One needs to get away from the old classics to try something new.

...and something new is what we have by the plenty in Brazilian wilderness.

We have all sort of rough material to make real all dreamers fantasies.

Our garden needs the beautiful not  the wild only, this is the job of the Botanic Gardens and of course the preserving areas in wilderness. Preserving the species is not our job ´cause once a plant gets out from the wilderness it gets itself into a dubious plant and will never, never get back to wilderness. Our botany has committed all errors and mistakes with Dyckias up to the point of deserving no trusting. Science described hybrids as species, put a plant native to Brazil in Mexico, described twice and differently the very same thing.

Dyckias are alluring and alluding. They are not  plants to be described based on a glimpse, a furtive look in wilderness and based on  the stories of a bushman a professional on assaulting our wilderness. Dyckias as long taken as stray plants..people were looking for  cacti and other bromeliads and then spotted a Dyckia...Dyckias rarely was any´s intention. Egos are larger than most of their owners and botany presented all sort of them.

So when people ask me  is it pure?  It makes me laugh and cry at the very same time...and makes me say:

it is pure Dyckia!!!

Commercially things  are even worst than in the science field as Dyckias are a total different being. they do not act as orchids or cacti and one must think differently on them.

Taking Dyckias seriously  is a job for those who are willing to dare to face the new...

What is safe and sure to be said on Dyckias?

This is beautiful this is not!

... but we must not give up!

I love Dyckias, they are sublime and fantastic and they have many habilities and the one I love the most is the  easiness they fool us all lovers, scientists, traders and whatsoever...they really defies me as they represent a challenge to any one who  dares to take them seriously ...

Isn´t this colorfull?