Dyckia fosteriana
Emboque - Paraná
Close to the São Paulo border
Above
Dyckia fosteriana - Sengés - Paraná
Above
Dyckia fosteriana - Emboque Region in Paraná
Type plant
This is one old lady we slhoul say a classic Dyckia. It is known by anyone on Earth who loves Dyckias or they think they know it.
Most of the time what we see is a drab faint plant with some Dyckia fosteriana blood in its genetic line.
This is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful plants in the Dyckia World a cadillac Dyckia and the reason for so much confusion lies on these facts:
a - All Dyckias are very hard to be recognized. They may have many, many faces. Thi leads to many errors and mistakes.
b - Science when in a hurry to come into a conclusion committed many mistakes, some historical ones.
c- This plant occurs in several locations hence some variations in its appearance.
d - As most Dyckias this one blooms easily and also crosses easily. One plant may look exactly as one Dyckia fosteriana and yet be an hybrid so the descent may never be as the parentage in spite of look alike.
e - The plant may be totally reddish and with just a few scales when under too much heavy rain. The water washes away the silver scales and what is left is a reddish or simply red/greenish/wine color plant.
f- When in months of no rain or no heavy rain at all, what occurs sporadically in its habitat, the plant is an allover silver jewel as the one you can see below.
The above plant comes from Cambé in North Paraná.
It is a very silvery plant and its silver scales are tiny.
That is a luxury Dyckia fosteriana.
Above Dyckia fosteriana from Arapoti/Jaguariaíva Region in Paraná
After seeing these pictures you may realize that what we see under the name of Dyckia fosteriana is hardly to a real fosteriana.
There are many more reasons beyond those above for the fosteriana caos happen and I do believe that the main reason as ever might be something too much too trivial: money!
People get open fertilized seeds from a plant that look to be one Dyckia fosteriana and states or worst yet sells the seedling as legitimate fosteriana.
We see this with some other species as Dyckia brevifolia and Dyckia marnier-lapostollei.
The longer a plant is abroad, the rarer it is and the most beautiful it might be the more strange it gets as the time passes by.
Each species with some particularity added has appeared a bit strange to the real one. Marniers do no self fertilization and they have many faces so "varieties" are created instead of the true species. So we use to see as much variations as star on a winter starry night sky.
I do believe that soon we come to a point of hardly find something true in terms of species abroad Brazil and in some cases even here.
Money commands.
I happened with orchids, cacti, bromeliads and now it is happen again with Dyckias. History repeats itself.
How do you think we find an extremely rare and protect by law species being on a sale outside Brazil? Do you think the plants use to fly like migratory birds or swim with the whales and the sardines?
I do not mind a bit, I think we might have rare plants cultivated in exhaustion around the word.
The point is...when something is real rare and illegal and money is all around...hardly if ever honesty follows and then a pony is a zebra.
...and when honesty is rarer than a Dyckia beateae ( there is just one spot for it in wilderness) what or who do you trust on?
When the roles are distorted what to you have for guidance, what lighthouse your ship follows?
Nothing is yours nor mine but ours! We should understand that clearly.
There is none to blame for the burning of our Amazon but we all, all of us with no exception.
Those who feeds on beef and do it of a fancy tropical wood made table are those to blame too.
Our little world is too much too different now. Home is only one! We are all neighbours. Listen, your dog is barking.
Take my hand... as that song: Take my hand, I´m a stranger in paradise. I´m lost in wonderland..a stranger in paradise...and if I stand stared eye..that a danger in Paradise.
Frank Capras´ Lost Horizon
Our Shangri-la is here, there and everywhere.
Let us all do for a better place.
Understanding is a very good way to do it.
Knowledge is as a Lighthouse...
Yes the true species is much nicer than most of those we see in the USA.
ReplyDeleteA major goal for the future of mankind is setting up forms of government to minimize corruption. Corruption is like a massive tax that distroys trust and prediction for business, resulting in hard lives where plenty could be obtained. Look at the riches of Japan with few resources but controlled corruption, and Africa with massive resources, massive corruption, and little riches.