This are smaller than the type form of Dyckia fosteriana and also seem to be the
Southernmost variety of Dyckia fosteriana.
Rare in wilderness and in culture.
Easily looses its silver scales for the rain water.
The plants in wilderness have their tops white ´cause the new growth area
preserves the silvery scales.
So the proposed name Dyckia fosteriana nivosa ( Snowy)
In nature they are found growing on rocks in the middle of a fig plantation
Nude fig trees look like creatures from Mars.
These Dyckias share their habitat with a very numerous little yellow flowered Notocatus.
The plant is well protected on this farm. The land owners love and care about this plant.
They said there seem to exist just one more population a bit North their lands
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