Dyckia Brazil

Dyckias...These creatures of the Light are mostly Brazilian. Many of them are still to be seen by the very first time. Come on in. Let us see some. This Blog was created to show you the plants in my garden and also help you to keep happier Dyckias. This is the beginning of the book:THE ALLURING DYCKIAS. I may share some seeds with you. This way we help Dyckias to be known, understood and cherished. Email me at: constantinog@terra.com.br Constantino Gastaldi -Brazil ... 55-47-3425-8085

Apr 27, 2010

Dyckia pectinata

One of the rarest Dyckia species of all.

The plant does not pups nor shoots, reproduces only by seeds or tissue culturing.

Dyckia gloriosa

The color changes from deep red wine to pinkish scarlet accordingly to the light intensity and incidence. In every moment a breathtaking view...

Dyckia encholirioides

Those who like them big...this is it.

Huge!

Dyckia encholirioides

A huge one Dyckia from Southern seashore line

Grows on rocks and sand bars close to the Atlantic Ocean.

This is one of the most beautiful Dyckia hybrids

Dyckia Platyphylla X Dyckia fosteriana

(Dyckia marnier-lapostollei X Dyckia brevifolia) X Dyckia fosteriana

Wonderful form and shape and splendid coloration

This hybrid is still unamed.

Apr 26, 2010

Dyckia species from Rondonópolis in Mato Grosso

We are getting to know of new Dyckia species in a regular basis, lately.

Brazil is a huge country and we have many areas where no one has set a foot up to now.

Isolate and remote areas even close to the biggest cities.

Top of mountains, vertical cliffs and isolated rock outcrops within forests, deep valleys, canyons and many other places are still to be seen.

Conspicuous spines on green succulent leaves.

Dyckia Picante

...a lovely american Dyckia hybrid here showing flower stalks...

Dyckia delicata

This red form comes from close to the type form homeland in nature.

Dyckia delicata still presents a challenge to those who intent to study them.

Dyckia Brasília another fine Hybrid made by myself...

Dyckia Brasília
This beauty is the result of the love affair between Dyckia marnier-lapostollei Bahia form and Dyckia brevifolia Ilha da Cotia form.
Brasília is one of my sisters. She brought me up and loved me till she died.
Science still owes us all the cure for this most horrendous enemy, cancer.

Dyckia Apolônia another Brazilian hybrid

Dyckia Apolônia

Dyckia gradeae X Dyckia brevifolia
Gradeae is a unpublished Dyckia species from North Mato Grosso.

A Brazilian Hybrid Dyckia!

Beautiful!!
Beautiful??
No my dearest, no!!
This is dazzling!!!

Dyckia Lascívia a Brazilian hybrid Dyckia

Dyckia Lascívia

(Lascívia means lust in Portuguese our language)

Vivid as Samba

Lusting as a dancing mulata...

Festive and colorful as Carnival in Rio

Luxuriant as Brazil.

Apr 25, 2010

Dyckia delicata...pinkish spines! Species!!!!!

Dyckia delicata

We still have everything to know and understand on Dyckia delicatas. Delicata was just described a deep study is yet to be made.
This baby is from Tomba Bodes Slope.

Dyckia delicata........Species!!!!!!

Beautiful?
No!
Stunning!!!!

Dyckia domfelicianensis from Dom Feliciano a small town in Rio Grande do Sul

Dyckia domfelicianensis

In fact this is a Dyckia hebdingii affinis, this Dyckia species is a close relative to Dyckia hebdingii.
Dyckia hebdingii is a large Dyckia Complex that comprises many species and forms.

Dyckia fosteriana rubra form

A crown for Kings this is in fact a true regal Royal one.

This is the Highness of the Rocks: Dyckia fosteriana rubra.

Dyckia fosteriana Complex comprises some of the most magnificent Dyckias of all.

Apr 24, 2010

Dyckia beateae in his homeland Mato Grosso

Dyckia beateae

This plant is supposed to be intirely red when under the Sun it likes best.

Here it is in Cuiabá in Mato Grosso under the care of my frien the biologist and botanist Adarilda

Benelli. Pictures are hers.

If you do not live in the Tropics you will need artificial lights almost year round to achieve these results.

In Joinville when the plant is getting red the Autumn shorter days come and the plant gets yellowish with just tiny reddish center.

Dyckia Lascívia

Dyckia Lascívia (Lust)

A Brazilian name that fits nicely on this Dyckia hybrid

(Dyckia goehringii X Dyckia pectinata)

Neoregelia hybrid in ....dyckia companion

Neoregelia hybrid
To fit as Dyckia companion the plant must look terrificly beautiful and
of course it must enjoy the Sun exposing.

Dyckia fosteriana ... a rubra form of it.

Here the plant is under the rain so we do not see the scales or its silver indument and as the base is reddish or rubra the plant even under the rain is a show.

Red or rubra plants catches more eyes than the othersI wonder why.

Maybe plantsare supposed to be green...

Dyckia marnier-lapostollei X Dyckia brevifolia

This cross is known a true species, an error.

This is not Dyckia platyphylla but Dyckia Platyphylla.

The coin is a one Euro Cent.

Dyckia Platyphylla

Written with capital letter!

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