Dyckia hebdingii red

 

Dyckia hebdingii red is probably the rarest among the hebdingii ones.

Notice its red blood spines.

Dyckia hebdingii, yes, it is.

Dyckia Via Láctea (Milky Way)

The very same plant.

Dyckia brevifolia subidensis

Dyckia brevifolia subidensis and Dyckia brevifolia golden glow to compare them.

These are all wilderness collected in Subida - Santa Catarina.

subidensis are smaller than type and present a lemon /yellow color.
Their flower spike is shorter and the flowers even more yellower than the type ones.

 

white Dyckia reitzii

White Dyckia macedoi

A deep dark Dyckia reitzii rubra

Dyckia reitzii can endure freezing cold temperatures but: 

NEVER FOR MORE THAN A VERY FEW HOURS!!!

I live in Santa Catarina Brazil and it can be very cold, and dyckias here just love some snow.

 A August landscape, a view from  our State Capital, Florianópolis.

Above: the three Pic Mountain in Rio do Sul.
Dyckia riosulensis lives exactly here.

Bellow:

Way to the Pic!

 We from South are seen this way by the others ...

 By the see in our State capital.

 

Our Brazilian Pine trees.

...Brazil is so vast
Contrary to Canada, Russia, China also huge countries, we can live anywhere in the country for we have no deserts and every square cm in our territory is  fertile year around.

"Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world, trailing only Russia, Canada, China, and the U.S., in that order. In fact, all of the continental U.S. could fit inside Brazil with room to spare, just as all the countries in the European Union could easily fit inside Brazil. It is its large scale that gives Brazil its varied landscape. Occupying more than half of South America, Brazil is a fascinating place to visit."

 

How much cold a Dyckia can get here South in Brazil...

Here is where Dyckia riosulensis live. 

A brand new found one I already showed here.

Here I am with Dennis Catchart (Tropical Flora)

Tropiflora, LLC. | 3530 Tallevast Rd. | Sarasota, Florida 34243
This is in Santa Catarina some 4(four) km away from where I lived for 25 years, my hometown Rio do Sul-SC Brazil.

Bellow the very same spot three months earlier.

Something to laugh:

Dennis  and his wife Linda came to visit me here.
We, Linda, Dennis, a local friend and me we went to this place. It was a balmy day.
Linda decided not to climb the to the top of the mountain as it would be too much to her.

Linda and our driver stayed a bit bellow the top in a paradisiac place where once there was a house.
We, me and the Brazilian friend and Dennis we climbed to the top on foot and stayed there for a long time.

It was a fantastic time. We were in heavens!
It took us some four hours to get back and we were worried with Linda
Hi Linda my darling Linda how are you and how do you spent all this time here? 

I asked her as soon as she could hear me.
She promptly answered:

Oh, I had a leisure time, looking all around and we talked and talked and talked."
We who, Linda darling?

"Oh, we me and the gentle driver", she said.
Oh, oh, oh Lord almighty!!
Just a detail: Linda can´t speak Portuguese and the driver never heard English except in the movies.

I adored Linda!
Dennis, my friend What a lucky guy you are!

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Dyckia delicata rubra

Dyckia delicata

Dyckia hebdingii is a vast Dyckia complex....

Dyckia hebdingii  present as many colors as stars on a Summer sky.
Some are ultra rare and beautiful and they can present several shades of white, red, golden, 

blue, green and more...

Dyckia alegria: D. lindelvaldeae X Dyckia tuberosa

Dyckia discoides

 Dyckia discoides or magnifica is a dyckia species under description here.
Native to Santa Catarina.

 I have seeds.