Which one is delicata in a rainy day?

...the one on the right!
 

La Petit Belle is a living jewel

 Yes, without any doubt  it is not a question of size.

This is a real living small beauty

Dyckias are an endless source of fantasies and surprises and one can dream here.

This is a golden treasure.

Yes, it would well be the match of the Century

This is one of the prettiest Dyckias I´ve seen. Small, yellowish, rare, well succulent leaves and a rosete  to gasp. Dyckia brevifolia var. subidensis xanthic

Encholirium agavoides
 

Dyckia brevifolia subidensis and Encholirium agavoides what a match!

This is may dream match. I would love to make intergeneric hybrids here.  Encholirium are hard to cultivate here South in Brazil. It would be nice to put the two together. Recently there was a Brazilian attempt the include the all Encholirium genus into Dyckias. It didn´t work.

Thanks God it did not. Both genus are very close and they interbreed easely.

Dyckia brevifolia typically blooms in springtime. Awaking now.

 

Dyckia hebdingii one of the most beautiful Dyckias of all

 

11 years ago amid Dyckia delicatas. Seeds.

This is the highest point of the delicata habitat. The plants below this top most local are amid the forest, shadowed and much bigger. This is what Dyckias are for in nature. Their main role is to bring the forest to the stony hills and mountains.

 

Dyckia hb strehlloa, Dyckia strehliana X Dyckia selloa natural hybrid

 

Dyckia retardata X Dyckia delicata hybrid = Dyckia hb Pink Panther

Dyckia hb Pink Panther

 

Dyckia choristaminea preparing bloom

 

Dyckia brevifolia var. subidensis

 

Twins but no identical plants

Both are Brittle Star and delicata blooded plants.
 

What about a fountain in the garden?

Narrow dark leaves.

The mother plant is a Dyckia reitzii rubra var. Fortaleza and the polen donator plant is a Dyckia monticola var. Campo Alegre-SC.

 

Growing together and living together. Beauties or just rarities. No species.

 I like big ceramic shallow bowls, basins. Within them I grow dreams. Hybrid plants, unique, only ones in this entire little blue world we call Home. They grow and they bloom and produce their own beauties. I love to keep they the way they like love and enjoy living. I think that is Dyckias for when under cultivation, to please my eyes.

Ok, they teach me too and they do it every day. Each day I learn a bit nd eventually a lot too.

I showed them here already but let us tell their heritage as I promised.

- Dyckia hb Constantino Gastaldi. It is the one to the left and its father is a Dyckia fosteriana from the Sengés group while the mother plant is a Bill Baker hybrid Dyckia hb Brittle Star.

-The sparkling white beauty to the right is a Dyckia delicata white and Dyckia Brittle Star cross.

Dyckia neo-jonesiana

Dyckia neo-jonesiana can be found in green, red, white and all te shades in between .

It honors my friend Dr. Jones Caldas.

Dyckia pseudodelicata rubra under rain

Notice the leaves are also dehydrated do to recent transplantation and clump separation.

This plant is still in the process of producing new roots hence the corrugated surface of leaves.

You can spot out some leaf mechanical damages in it.

Another point in these picture one observer may notice the crown is still adapting to the new position.  It is not  harmonious yet.

 

Dyckia strehliana a reophytic plant

Leaf edges are toothless, glabrous. Leaves are smooth except for the apical spine.

Look there, we shall have flowers.