Dyckia Brazil

Nov 6, 2011

Dyckia sp from Lagoão-RS

Beautiful, different looking and colors.

A very charming shape and a must needed presense in any collection.

Nov 5, 2011

Dyckia sp from Porto Alegre Leprosário

This new Dyckia species was found in the lands sourrounding Porto Alegre

close to an old leprosarium...

Adult plants seem to bear the biggest spines in a Dyckia

The beautiful Dyckia brefivolia var. aurea

Dyckia brevifolia var. aurea.

Native to the Rio Itajaí-açu basin in Santa Catarina

these were collected close to the Salto Pilão hidroeledric, Subida.

Notice the base of a flower stem here ...

Dyckia magnifica.... a Santa Catarina species under description.

Dyckia magnifica

New rare and beautiful this is one multileafed Dyckia. Such plants bearing many leaves are all native to the southernmost part of Brazil and they are all mountain dwellers.

They do not just tolerate mild to severe frosts they need them to be beautiful.

New hybrid Dyckia

Made all by myself....

Dyckia brevifolia Yellow Glow

Maybe the most spectacular Dyckia cultivar. This plant is not a hybrid!!!

Dyckia marnier-lapotollei as it really is!

Dyckia marnier-lapostollei

The real Dyckia marnier-lapostollei is always a three Bs one plant:

Big,

Beautiful

and

Bold !

Dyckia distachya affinis rubra

This plant is extremely beautiful if kept under the conditions it requires to off all its beauty.

Plenty of sun without any shadowing.

In nature it grown on a dry and rocky river bed where no grass nor or bushes trees grow.

Reproduces easily and by plenty by stolons to make an impressive mound.

This plant was a reason of great sadness to me: I gave one plant to each of the three visitors I had some two years ago. I gave as a gift and one of them sold the plant to a Southeastern Asia guy.

This occasions I understand why people never give a dry leaf to anyone.

Dyckia goehringii X Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana Star of Brazil

Made all by myself I am proud of it.....I must sit down and choose a perfect name and then

BSI does a very fine and important job

This plant already has three small sprouts....this guarantees the cultivar will go on...

Nov 4, 2011

Dyckia alba

Blooms by the very first time in my garden.

This is a very special blooming as the plant is extremely rare and under the eminent risk of

extinction. The flower apparatus will present some intriguing novelties as the cotton like structure

after which the plant is named.

Notice the strong stem and the surprisingly beautiful and conspicuous rose bractea.

We will follow this blooming.

I decided not to show this plant during our Dyckia show as the flower would be damaged.

I also intend to make sone hybrids and of course some self too.

Nov 3, 2011

Dyckia delicata aurea and its seedlings

Dyckia delicata aurea seedlings produced from wild collected seeds.

Below these are seedling from the very same batch they are not as fine as the above ones just ´cause they were not transplanted to a better growing spot.

The plant is indeed a refugee from Paradise.....

Xantochromic Dyckia sp maritima affinis

Xantochromism in Dyckias are as rare as variegations.

This plant presents many small Sun burn dots as this plant is not capable of living under the fiercing sun.

I found this yellowish plants among this maritima affinis and also among the brevifolias.

This phenomenon was never studied.

This is not lack of nutrition. The plant is so year around...

Nov 2, 2011

Dyckia hb Belissima

...or droplets of blood on a silver plate

My Agapanthus Snow Ball is a luxury that tells me the Spring is her to stay.

Dyckia hb Bleeding Heart

Improving every day....

Dyckia alba, a rarity from Rio Grande do Sul.

Dyckia alba

...a rarity from South ready to bloom by the very fist time in my garden.

Dyckia delicata aurea

Dyckia delicata aurea

This is smaller than the type form and lives in nature way above the type form on the very

same slope. It is almost impossible to be reached.

This is one of the rarest and most gorgeous Brazilian plants.

The 73 flower Fest from 11th to 16 in November, with the largest Dyckia Show in the world

It is almost finished. This is the set where my Dyckias will be shown here in Joinville, Santa Catarina Brazil.

A huge rock bed of pebble and slate.

The event is annual and Dyckias conquered a space never once imagine.

Pictures here are of low quality as I didn´t know how to take indoors pictures.

Hope I learn and show more decently made pictures.

Dyckias got more notoriety than ever before.

This is something to celebrate!!

I wished you were here!!

Make sure you will be here in mid November 2012 when we´ll have a brand new Dyckia show for you.

Dyckia sp, what does this mean? ...and what else?

Dyckia sp is the very same as Dyckia species, in fact short for Dyckia species. It refers to an unnamed Dyckia species.

A Dyckia sp can not be a hybrid Dyckia and never a Dyckia you do not know the name but a nameless Dyckia species. The fact that you do not know the plant it does not mean a nameless one.

A new Dyckia species must be published in order to have its name valid. This obligation doesn´t counted on Iternet publications as The World Wide Web didn´t exist and publication meant : journals, books, magazine, scientific report magazines.

Nowadays nothing is better published than in the WWW.
Publishing means getting public and there is nothing equal nor close to the WWW.

Public means everybody not just a bunch of selected guys.
These are mates, collegues, fellows not public. Here people publish new Plant species on very restricted magazine or very specialized magazines and assume as published. Publishing means everybody who is willing to know of it. Also the world doesn´speaks Portuguese, nor spanish and less than this doesn´t understand old Latim ( Not even those who publishes a new species. They rely on claves and many mistakes are made.) Today publishing means WWW!!! Today it means English!! If a new species is published here in Brazil it must be in Latim as in any other place on the Earth, Portuguese and for God´s sake also in English and entirely not a sinopsis only. Publications with a very restrictec and exclusive public is out of question. Publications with on purposal omitted data is also out of question and not valid. A bunch of readers is not public. A group of readers are collegues never public!!!Public is WWW and your reader may be in Reykjavick or Auckland, Rio or Tokyo and everywhere in between. Portuguese is a lovely sounding language. It makes feel home...but who is going to undertand me in ...in...everywhere else besides people which countries speak Camões´ language? English, English for Gods´sake.
Also there is no sense publising without precise data.
Preservation means showing, educating not hidding an less yet iluding.
What Light is for if it doesn´t Brighten up high above everything? Light is to iluminate or it is not Light and if it isn´t Light it isn´t Science!

Species and Hybrids understand their names

Understand Latim names. Latim names identify species. Usually they have two words. The first one begins with a Capital letter and the second doesn´t. The second identifies the species and the first tell the genus it belongs to.
e.g. Dyckia brevifolia
Dyckia is the genus and brevifolia the species (brevi = short folia = leaf)

e. g. Dyckia MammaMia
Hybrid plant , the second name also begins with a capital letter.

Do you want to know lots about this?
Are you willing to know what is in a Botanical name?
Hit:
http://www.plantapalm.com/wianame,htm