Well, after much confusing finally the right thing or the truth comes to the surface
of a muddy bog of errors.
This is the plant that generates Dyckia estevessi the fan one.
The fanning is a phenomenon much like the crestation in cacti.
Not all plants are fan like just some.
Fan like plants are sterile.
We were induced to think the plant were not self fertile and as never two plants fan leaved crossed we thought they were clones from the same mother plant in other words the very same plant.
The spiral form is self fertile! It has some problems in culture concerning to fertility bur it is self fertile indeed.
It is from these seeds, seeds of the spiral form that the disdichous form comes in certain percentage.
Being so what we conclude?
We conclude the one who described never was in the habitat of this plant and this is a mistake.
Long ago Taxonomists rely only on bush men and collectors. Taxonomists would never dare to come to the tropics and face the mosquitoes and indians and snakes and such and such..
this was long, long ago...
Also ?Dyckia descriptions were made without the full observation of the plant, the living creature in habitat and in cultivation.
What was the hurry here?
Humm...Did the taxonomist knew about the spiral plant growing together with the fan form?
Was he told about?
When did he came to know?
What was done since then?
Errors and mistakes are much too human.
We are not perfect creatures.
I think this is great and we learn a lot.
We ought to observe this and this fan manifestation.
What induces to this fan form?
Is it something to do exclusively with genetics or this is something induced bu some agent?
Also in late sixties the region was the scenery of a Brazilian civil war. The military men took the power with the applause of America. They gave the power back 30 years after.
This is over, Amen!
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