Bill Baker, no long amid us, Dyckia lovers, was a pioneer in Dckia keeping, seeling and hybridizing them.
He rarely baptized his hybrids if he did. People used to by young hybrid plants not showing their final looks. Hybrids will show the final looks after blooming.
Some of his hybrids are complex ones. Dyckia hb Mercury is one of them. Looking at its flowers we see clearly a Dyckia fosteriana blood in it. Also we ca see Dyckia marnier-lapostollei as one of the first in its genetic line.
Bill lived in LA California and most of the new comercial Dyckia hybrids are descent from his hybrids.
I like Mercury as it is big enough to impress and even so small enough to fit gracefully in a common shelf .
This plant was sent to me by a Bill Baker close Friend some 20 years ago.
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