The many many looks of true true true Dyckia delicata....

Dyckia delicatas all you see here and everyone.

Dyckia delicata they are more than you imagined and they still have more to be found and showed...

 

All Dyckia delicatas, all true ones!

Dyckias even those fro a very same species do not present the very same looks!!
Dyckias are old plants and they are being vanished from the face of the planet.
their role as living beings is coming to an end and naturally.

Dyckias bring elements to the rock or sandy field as nutrients and these are used to other plants as bushes and trees. Dyckias are colonizer plants.

Dyckia delicatas are found on bare sun exposing rocks and literally within the forest.
This makes delicata to present a infinite number of appearances and looks.
Those within the bushes are huge, greener and those exposed are whiter and smaller, thin leaves...
All these differences are changes and adaptations already registered in the genetic code of these plants.
Delicatas are performing their last act, the final play.

Ok it will last some many years but all this transformations are pretty visible and noticeable.
As I say: we barely begun to understand Dyckias.
Scientists normally use one plant look and see just this one.
sdome Dyckias were described using a single plant, others scientists do not knew where they came from and so on and on.
We must visitt the region many, many times..in Winter, summer, during rainy season and dry times.
Most Dyckia describers never set a foot in Brazil or close to here.

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If one looks for the best looking and the intriguing unsual Dyckia delicata is a true feast.

...and there exist many many more looks to be found.

...and I willl.

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