New breeze from the South

Dyckia sp Pedreira - Viamão -RS

A nameless species
Comes from Rio Grande do Sul.
Lives on a granite rock that has being cut piece by piece to make grid
for the construction industry.
Another species lives there with impressive black spines of more than 2 cm long.
Grows compactly up to the size of a basket ball.

The rosette center gets violet!
There are individual plants absolutely silver.

Produces a very string flower spike with thousands of minute yellow flowers that later produce uncountable tiny seeds like bird seed.