Dyckia pseudodelicata, The Queen of all Dyckias|

 

Dyckia pampeana first time in history a flower is shown

 

Dyckia pseudodelicata rubra form

 Yes, ths is the Queen of all Dyckias.

Thi plant is still recovering, imagine it some months ahead from today. Gorgeous indeed.

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Dyckia pseudodelicata rubra form

Above, in a dried  sun caught moment.

Below, the very same plant wet by the pouring rain.

Above, can you see the flower stalk being made?

Seeds, I dream of those.

 

Dyckia pseudodelicata white

Dyckia pseudodelicata can  be seen in white, cherry red, rubra, green and all the shades in between. Above a recovering white one. It was recently separated from a split head plant.

One of my dogs step on it too.

Dyckia hebdingii has an ample territory in Rio Grande do Sul...

 ...consequently some differences appear and also some natural hybrids. Let us see some of these spectacular plants.

This lives in Barão do Triunfo on the lands of Senhor Nenê and Maria Garcia. He died a few years ago.

There we can find the most beautiful Dyckia hebdingii of all.

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Lajeado Roxo variety

Dyckia hb Koka Wolff

 

I do love stray hybrids

Those tht grows by themselves amid or in Dyckia pots .

The mother plant is a Dyckia reitzii, the father is a conjecture but the elegance and beauty are notorious.

It looks like a lead fountain.

Dyckia pampeana the smallest Dyckia species

Dyckia pampeana is native Brazil pampa region

This is an extensive  grass covered plain area that goes also to Uruguay and Argentina.

Sheep raising farms almost exterminated this plant. It grows amid the grass and looks look one. It reproduces avidly by stolons and is able o cover the terrain.

A few years ago some rare ones were found whee the sheep tongues could not reach.

 

Dyckia fosteriana cultivar Dakota variegated

Very little is known about this small beauty.
Maybe it appeared in US.
Variegation in a DNA disturbance that comes up very once in a while.

Some chemicals is said to trigger this and has being used with many different ornamental plants
in Southeast Asia. The truth is the more seeds one sows the bigger are the chances for him to get a different looking plant. 

Some variegated plants transfer that characteristic to its seedling but the majority of the variegated ones tries to ban that and turn to normal looking. The plant see this as an anomaly that mus be eliminated

Here we can see seeds a
I spreadon top of the substrate.

Seeds are already swollen after less than 24 hours.
Warm humid Summer days help germination.

 

 

Dyckia delicata and Dyckia pseudodelicata, just to say ohhhhhhhhhh...

Growing together, living together ... just like that pretty Burt Bacharat song...

Yes, a sight to behold forever.

Think.

Yes, Encholirium agavoides seedlings

We are deeply inexperienced when concerning to this lovely looking Encholirium. Here, everything is new, never seen before.

 

Dyckia rondonopolitana from Rondonópolis Mato Grosso

Small, green, light white scale  not well covered, dark curved spines and leaves are bent downwardly.

 A charming beauty.

 

A reophytic one from way down South in Brazil

Its origins are obscure. Its is a species that grows close to running clear waters south in Brazil.

Leaves re glabros and just the apical spine is present.

Extremely beautiful and remind me of Dckia strehliana only much bigger.

Once taken as Dyckia ramboi but this name is invalid.