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

Jun 30, 2017

Dyckia Aurora, one of the best looking ones

Jun 27, 2017

I think it is not Dyckia tenebrosa but something related to it.

Jun 26, 2017

Beheaded Dyckia delicata rubra.

Decapitation showed to be a fine way to duplicate a beautiful and rare Dyckia.

Above you can spot the old leaves of the beheaded plant.

This way of multiplication is extremely useful to plants that do not emit lateral sprouts,
special cultivars, variegated ones...

Jun 24, 2017

Dyckia monticola Aurora

Jun 18, 2017

No, no, not a Deuterocohnia!!! It is a new found Dyckia!!!!!

Dyckias and Deuterocohnias arte well realated.
This is one of the best living proves of this.

It was found by a friend of mine, a farmer in Minas Gerais and this beauty lives in super restricted area of less than 20 square meters!!!
It is found anywhere else.
This population is now saved from Eucalyptus plantation.
My friend is going to preserve the area.
We are finding who will describe it.

Jun 1, 2017

Dyckia macedoi, now with round seed capsules.

Stripes are well visible in macedoi leaves.

Dyckia lindelvaldeae almost ready to show its scented flowers

I love the crab Dyckia. Dyckia pottiorum can carry the world upon its back

All its sprouts and floral stalks beginnings are on its back.

So white, so beautiful, so different, a novelty in Dyckia

Joanae marcioi X reitzi white

New species result in new spectacular new hybrids!

The plant is all over tiny white scales covered resulting on an impressive beautiful new Dyckia .

The leaf margins on the leaf tip are lifted up!

May 28, 2017

Dyckia fosteriana from Sengés. All and each Dyckia fosteriana Sengés!!!!! We can see sone two dozen different looks in there!

May 27, 2017

From Apiúna, Dom Bosco Peak, still undescribed

May 23, 2017

dyckia hb Koka Wolff is a superb hebdingii Brazilian hybrid

May 19, 2017

A surprise on top of the mountain.

This must be a Dyckia not yet studied.
It was found by Dr. Vilson Müller and Dr Alexandre Kinas in between Araçatuba Peak and its neighbour mountain.

This was May 15th 2017.

The terrain was a bog one.

Flower stalks are as tall as Dr. Vilson.
This condithions is absolutely weird for a Dyckia to grow.
Bog is not a good terrain for a Dyckia and .....
Just 16 plants were found!!!!

May 18, 2017

Dyckia hb Via Lactea

May 14, 2017

Dyckia incana, special for those who love them small and white.

Dyckia macedoi

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