Dyckia sp gloriosa

Dyckia sp gloriosa

I am repeating this but I think this is worthwhile.

This plant is native to Northeastern Santa Catarina uphills.

I found this in wilderness just half an hour trip from my garden.

It was living at exactele 1001 meters high from sea level.

This plant is a show to any eye. Colorful year around its leaves are just like ribbons

that lay down on the substrate forming a disc of colorful leaves. 

The underleaves are contrasting silver.

Nothing compares to this beauty....

The Dyckia Royal marriage, indeed!

 Dyckia hb Bill Paylen

Their blooms are due to open simultaneously....

Dyckia hb Brittle Star

Dyckia sp magnifica

 Dyckia sp magnifica

Native to Santa Catarina continue to be one of the rarest  Brazilian Dyckias.

It stands cold well bellow freezing.

Dyckia ferruginea

 Dyckia ferruginea

Native to Mato Grosso. 

Its  Latin name comes from the flowers buds and the flower stem appearence, rusty.

..all anxious for blooming...

Dyckia hb Bill Paylen

 Dyckia hb Brittle Star

Dyckia hb Tarzan

Dyckia marnier-lapostollei var. estevesii

Dyckia marnier-lapostollei var. estevesii

This species has many regional varieties as it is found distributes  in a huge are within Central Brazil. Meanwhile this is the only variety to be named.

Always produces weak flower stems.

...me Tarzan you Jane and you are Son of Tarzan.... Dyckia hb Son of Tarzan by Bill Baker

Dyckia Son of Tarzan

Its delicate scales must be protect from waterings and the rain

otherwise bald areas may be created.

...me Tarzan you Jane.... Dyckia hb Tarzan by Bill Baker

Dyckia Tarzan

...a Bill Baker beauty about blooming.

Dream, dream...dream...

 Dyckia hb Bill Paylen

Two of the most beautiful, famous and most wished hybrid Dyckias.

When we cross two  hybrids the resulting plants may be splendid and no two are equal.

Each plant an only one and unique in all universe. They may be  very similar to one another,

as we see here, but each singular. I do suspect these two plants here are brothers and descent

from the very same already hybrid parents.

We can notice hints of Dyckia marnier-lapostollei, fosteriana, brevifolia, dawsonii...all in a very amazing and  well known display.

Now imagine what would we have with a crossing here and also including some Dyckia delicata blood....hummmmm...

Dreaming....nothing exists that was not dreamed before!

Reality is a dream you can touch...

Dyckia hb Brittle Star

Dyckia hb Toothy Wolfgang

Dyckia Toothy is a Bill Baker creation

and a masterpiece no doubt.

Here in my garden thanks to

Steve Ball.

The Californians made Dyckia be desired and admires

around the globe.

The Dyckia Royal marriage!

Dyckia Bill Paylen

These are  among the most spectacular, desired and sought after hybrid Dyckias

of all times. They are Bill Baker´s masterpieces!

They are blooming here in my garden thanks to Steve Ball a Bill Baker´s friend and 

plant club collegues...a gift to kings!

These plants here are spectacular and in pristine conditions and both are about blooming.

Some of the most unique hybrids came from Thes two plants alone, Dyckia Bucksaw Ripper,

South Bay, Arizona... Now imagne the two together..

Californians were the first to keep and hybridize Dyckias and the most spectacular hybrids are there or originated from those in there.

Now a tribute to Bill Baker and a thanks to Steve Ball is about to happen here...here in Brazil, the Land of Dyckias.

this here is a roll of miracles, like bids in a rosary they  hpped one by one under the wish of a superior power we may call....God.

- I did not buy these plants!

- They were gifts!

- They got to Brazil in seven days..a record!

- They made in without  problems.

- They loved the climate and my treatment.

- They a pairing blooms...

 Dyckia Steve Ball is about to exist!!! About to come out my mind...out from God´s best wishes of luck to me...

Thank you Steve!

Also, both  these plants will  have some flowers polinated  with Dyckia delicata pollen.

Dyckia Brittle Star

 

Dyckia marnier-lapostollei X Dyckia brevifolia

Here the regional marnier-lapostollei used was one native to Our 

Federal District of Brasília. It was found in the Southwest extreme point of

our Federal District almost  into Goiás State.

Notice the pronounced triangular shape of its leaves is transferred to this hybrid.

Dyckia hb fosteriana-fosteriana White Snow

Dyckia hb fosteriana-fosteriana Snow White

Almost all the best known Dyckia hybrids have a bit of Dyckia marnier-lapostolei or Dyckia fosteriana

in their veins. This is a pure Dyckia fosteriana but results from two different regional varieties of fosterianas.

It is an increadible white plant all by myself made in my backyard.

 

Dyckia sp noelii

Dyckia sp noelii

This is species and under the process of description.

Noeli is the name  of the woman and plant lover who found the plant in nature

We suspect this plant is a Dyckia dusenii affinis in spite Dyckia dusenii lives some 300km North from this beauty home.

This is native to Santa Catarina Northeast uphills.

It is used to freezing cold winters and also some severe frosts when the temperature

go down below freezing.

Leaves are true colored year around and the underleaves are much endumented.

What means an endumented underleaf in a Dyckia?

This is a very useful trick when the dry times come.

The plant uplifts its leaves protecting the growing point.

doing so it  shows the silvery endumented underleaves to the Sun and also inable the plant to get humidity from the dew with much more efficiency.

In nature nothing is for nothing! Every detail has a practical meaning...

Readers, followers and friends:

I am having problems with my PC and I can not post any pictures til all the problems are fixed.

Until there you can visit old posts. They are many and I am sure you

Dyckia enthusiasts will find interesting informatiton and images.

I hope everything will get back into normal soon.

Thanks.

Constantino Gastaldi

Friday, July, o8th 2011.

Dyckia goehringii.....

 

Dyckia goehringii

 This  plant is white wax covered all over including spines an both sides of its leaves.

the flowers stems are green as one can notice here.

Its flowers can not be self fertilized in cold temperatures.

this fact seems to have lead many enthusiast to hybrid plants without noticing 

the plant can´t produce  its own seeds.

Dyckia ferrruginea

 Dyckia ferruginea

Its Latin names means rostand refers to the endument present 

on its floral stem, burs ans floral bractea.

Here its  flowers aparatus.

The best variegation on Dyckia up to now

This is not a fine variagation but it is the best  we have up to now.

We know almost nothing about variegation but certainly we know more than we did ten years ago.

 We do not understand what triggers it but it is not just a matter of biologic agents as viruses. It seems it can not be transmitted by seeds, so it can be

induced to happen...

A new Royal Wedding is announced .....

Dyckia marnier-lapostollei, the giant blue one

Two of the rarest and most beautiful Dyckia species from Central Brazil area announcing nuptials

intentions.  The influence and effects Dyckia marnier-lapostollei  transmits to its progeny is well know and seen on a myriad of  its hybrids around the globe. We know nothing about this giant blue variety of Dyckia marnier-lapostollei.

Dreaming is the material to built up the future.
There is nothing without dreams.



The variety Barra do Garças  is literally unknown abroad an inside Brazil and it would be great to use it here to make its first hybrids.

 

Dyckia beateae  var. Barra do Garças

Dyckia Mundo

Dyckia Mundo

Dyckia marnier-lapostollei X Dyckia brevifolia

This is one of the very first hybrids I made.

From the very same batch we have:

Dyckia Brasília, greee with red spines, Dyckia Chão de Estrelas, an endumented one.

All of them looking close to a Dyckia platyphylla and proving platyphylla is in faca a hibrid.