Dyckia hb Liz Taylor above and below.
above they are wet by the morning mist, today, Sunday July 22d.
Liz Taylor results from the crossing of Dyckia magnifica and Dyckia delicata rubra form.
Why Liz Taylor?
I already told that here. They were made the day Elizabeth Taylor died.
..and who is those green plants there?
Well Dyckia Liz Taylor are still young and are only those marked bluish/grey white here. Just those are Dyckia hb Liz Taylor. The others are seedlings that came from seeds from very same seed pods but They are not Liz Taylor and they are not simply ´cause Liz Taylor bust be those I named and not all those from the very same grex! The Green ones ( I guess they will be red ones!) maybe will be Richard Burton or Rock Hudson ones but they are not Liz Taylor. No matter the fact they are seedlings from the very same seed pod Liz Taylor came from.
Not only the parents make a certain hybrid but its phenotype or the way they look!
When one sows hybrid seeds, seeds made with two different species, may come up not with an army of the very same individuals but with a vast array of different ones and even we can not a pair amid those those.
We name every different looking plants with different names no matter the parents being the very same. 
Dyckias are intriguing and exclusive plants we can not deal with or
take as they were just like Mendel´s beans.
We barely know Dyckias enough to remove the first veil of our ignorance on them and it seems this veil has many folds...
...now imagine their hybrids.
Look here above and bellow....
Maybe I will name the green one (I am almost sure it will get red from November on.)
What about Dyckia hb Liz Taylor Emerald?
...and the one bellow would be......
Who knows it?
Bellow we see another grex from a Dyckia cross using two already hybrid Dyckias..
We can not find two equal looks here.
See here bellow the three parts of a seed pod.
This was produced by a single Dyckia flower and a single ovary.
The ovaries in Dyckia flowers are trilobed and each part may be fertilized by different fathers or different pollen grain with different genetics information. This may result in different sizes of each part and this is not that hard to find.
Seeds within the very same third part of a seed pod may be different and result
in different looking plants too.
So the very same parents or the very same parents and the very same seed pod may not be enough to produce the very same looks in each of the resulting seedlings.
When someone name a hybrid this person is naming a plant and a second one or no matter how many must present the very genetics information the the very same looks.
Very same parents may not be enough to produce the very same hybrid plants.
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