One must always keep some projects on going,some dream to be made:

I love hybrids and they can be overwhelmingly beautiful.

They help to preserve the species where they are in nature

Dyckias are extremely confusing their descriptions and things will last forever.

A species is preserved or should be preserved in specialized Botanic Gardens or

better yet in the wilderness.

Particular collections are not able to preserve for preserving means more than just keeping.

Hybrids play an important role in preservation.

I dream of a bigeneric one using these two plants.

An already hybrid Dyckia and this wonderful Encholirium reflexum.

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Certainly, they will bloom on different occasions so I must preserve pollen.

Frozen pollen proved to work.

The reason I choose this beauty is its Encholirium appearance. people frequently
ask me which Encholirium is this one.
Their faces usually go weird looing when I tell them this is a hybrid Dyckia.

Dreams help us to better live.

A life without a dream is just like an empty pocket.

I wish you have yours and never give them up.

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Dyckia fosteriana var. defecta

A variegated seedling Dyckia monticola and its evolution in just three months

 

These two pictures were taken in January 26th

Pictures below were taken in April 26th

Dyckia companion Enchlorium reflexum and Sincoraea navioides

A garden with Dyckias and its companions is never a drab boring one.

Colors and textures are always all around.

 

Dyckia brevifolia ar. subidensis

Dyckia brevifolia var. subidensis is a smaller plant than the species and it presents some color. besides greem or yellow.

Here the plan spills from its ceramic shallow basin..

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I favor hybrids in all terms

Dyckia brevifolia subidensis X Dyckia reitzii rubra

Dyckia hebdingii hb

Dyckia lindelvaldae X Dyckia delicata white type

Dyckia hebdingii type form. Pictured in March 27th, 2020

  

The wooden bench is a more than 200 years old antique.

The tray is a hand made one special for bonsai and came all the way from Tokyo a long time ago. 

The plant is one with several heads and has been under cultivation for more than 20 years since it was only a one head plant.

 

I just cut off the old leaves and I leave the axils attached to the trunk. 

The axils must stay there as they last forever and protect the trunk. 

Below a recently taken picture. 

One can notice the plant recover in just one month.

It is worth to remember this eighth heads plant is an only one

We do not consider it as eight separated plants. In nature, as they get old they form clumps that can separate and form isolated clumps but they are all clones and result from splitting heads.

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Dyckiia reitzii rubra X Dyckia fosteriana

A fine hybrid plant,

 small compact, many leaves, red spines, white underleaves, fine dots and marks.

some Dyckia hebdingii forms or local variations are strikingly beautiful

Hebdingii has a perfect and very attractive architecture.
The arrangement is fine for the eyes.

The plants are al poli-leafed ones

 

The mirror effect on them is particularly enticing.

Obs. I have several other forms and will show them tomorrow Thursday, April 30th

I will show a secundifolia form and more. Come back here, please, to see them.
DyckiaBrazil is the most extensive document solely on Dyckias in the world.
Here I show a lot and tell a bit. I do believe sharing is magic.
I do believe we do not respect what we do not know, we fear.
Dyckias are great plants we are just beginning to know the truth on them.
Those who say to know all know just nothing at all.
We are all students and I am delighted to be so.
Be welcome and please, be back tomorrow. Pardon my Englis and
 thanks God I am not using my German skills.
I am Constantino Gastaldi, a 65yo Brazilian retired dentist who loves plants and fish.
I hug you on these difficult times of the Corona virus.
We all must be better beings no matter the God we keel to.

Here some more regional varieties:

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Dyckia excelsa

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Dyckia ferruginea, the name means rusted for it flowers present a rust colored endument

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Some hints and considerations on Dyckia hebdingii

Dyckia hebdingii type presents one look only and it is this one bellow:

Dyckia hebdingii lives only in the wilderness in Rio Grande do Sul, the Southernmost Brazilian state, and presents an ample territory.

within its territory live a lot of other Dyckia species a remotifolia, choristaminea, jonesiana... Some were described as a separated species as Dyckia domfelicianensis from close to the very small Dom Feliciano town:

In its territory one sometimes can not find the hebdingii but its hybrids as the above Dyckia dom felicianensis and bellow Dyckia julianae, both hebdingii hybrids described as species:

Dyckia julianae is clearly a Dyckia hebdingii X Dyckia choristaminea natural cross.

 Every spot where  Dyckia hebdingii appears a variation, a form or a hybrid is shown and most of the cases no hebdingii are there to be seen anymore. In most cases, the resulting plant is literally a breathtakingly beautiful one. See some below:

Nenê variation.

Nenê.

Lageado Roxo form.

Nenê beauty.