The new found Dckia reitzii rubra and the white one live here  on top of the mountain.
down below is the small town of Praia Grande.
Raulino reitz was a Catholic father and the vicar  in this small town close to the mountains.
Dyckia reitzii is not found below 1.000 meters high moutain.

This not the place where we found Dyckia reitzii rubra two years ago.
This is a new  place , a close by one but a new place.
These two places are some 12 kilometers apart and both in the canyon region.
Here above is Rio Grande do Sul the southernmost Brazilian state and down below is Santa Catarina.
The grandeur of this place is something hard to describe.

The guy wearing red T-shirt is Clenilson Souza.

The one on the border of the cliff is Dr. Walter Kranz, the Brazilian most import Dyckia connoisseur.
Walter visited  almost 150 different Dyckia habitats in Brazil and surrounding countries.
No one else has done so!
He visited Dyckia in nature from the Amazonas to south. Here it is his first time ever.
His name is in Dyckia walterianae and Dyckia kranziana.

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