Dyckia Brazil: Aechmea recurvata growing on rocks....full sun

Aug 11, 2013

Aechmea recurvata growing on rocks....full sun

I am back home.
Our journey was half sunny and half rainy and a deep cold one .
We found many novelties, including Dyckia reotzii white,a silver white Dyckia retzii!
Dyckia does present variability. science normally and as usual had eyes for one plant only and this one was in most cases one collected by someone who never dared to see anything else. In most cases Dyckias were a side effect finding. People who were searching for cacti, bromeliadae or orchids took one of those bizarre creatures too...
I am back home and this time I will show you many breathtaking pictures.
My friends Dr. Walter Kranz and Clenilson Souza are here in Joinville and this early morning we shall visit another Dyckia field here nearby. It is cold and freezing cold..frost are present in my garden today...

OK, this is not a Dyckia but we could not resist taking some pictures to show this to you...

This plant was happily living where people use to sing and praise their land this way:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDaEegfSbBs

1 comment:

Dehem45July 22, 2020 at 1:59 PM
Linda variedade de recurvata var. benrathii !
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Dyckia sp, what does this mean? ...and what else?

Dyckia sp is the very same as Dyckia species, in fact short for Dyckia species. It refers to an unnamed Dyckia species.

A Dyckia sp can not be a hybrid Dyckia and never a Dyckia you do not know the name but a nameless Dyckia species. The fact that you do not know the plant it does not mean a nameless one.

A new Dyckia species must be published in order to have its name valid. This obligation doesn´t counted on Iternet publications as The World Wide Web didn´t exist and publication meant : journals, books, magazine, scientific report magazines.

Nowadays nothing is better published than in the WWW.
Publishing means getting public and there is nothing equal nor close to the WWW.

Public means everybody not just a bunch of selected guys.
These are mates, collegues, fellows not public. Here people publish new Plant species on very restricted magazine or very specialized magazines and assume as published. Publishing means everybody who is willing to know of it. Also the world doesn´speaks Portuguese, nor spanish and less than this doesn´t understand old Latim ( Not even those who publishes a new species. They rely on claves and many mistakes are made.) Today publishing means WWW!!! Today it means English!! If a new species is published here in Brazil it must be in Latim as in any other place on the Earth, Portuguese and for God´s sake also in English and entirely not a sinopsis only. Publications with a very restrictec and exclusive public is out of question. Publications with on purposal omitted data is also out of question and not valid. A bunch of readers is not public. A group of readers are collegues never public!!!Public is WWW and your reader may be in Reykjavick or Auckland, Rio or Tokyo and everywhere in between. Portuguese is a lovely sounding language. It makes feel home...but who is going to undertand me in ...in...everywhere else besides people which countries speak Camões´ language? English, English for Gods´sake.
Also there is no sense publising without precise data.
Preservation means showing, educating not hidding an less yet iluding.
What Light is for if it doesn´t Brighten up high above everything? Light is to iluminate or it is not Light and if it isn´t Light it isn´t Science!

Species and Hybrids understand their names

Understand Latim names. Latim names identify species. Usually they have two words. The first one begins with a Capital letter and the second doesn´t. The second identifies the species and the first tell the genus it belongs to.
e.g. Dyckia brevifolia
Dyckia is the genus and brevifolia the species (brevi = short folia = leaf)

e. g. Dyckia MammaMia
Hybrid plant , the second name also begins with a capital letter.

Do you want to know lots about this?
Are you willing to know what is in a Botanical name?
Hit:
http://www.plantapalm.com/wianame,htm