A friend of mine lives meters away from Dyckia brevifolia habitat
in Subida, Apiúna Santa Catarina.
The Itajaí river runs meters away from his house and between his house and the running white water river is the street and the big stones and them...hundreds of Dyckia brevifolia.
There are times, rainy times, when the up leveled waters cover the brevifolias for more than a week. This are reoficitc plants and they have ways to cope with the up and downs of the river.
This was my very first Dyckia and we didn´t know they were a bromeliad after all.
In my opinion reofitic Dyckias are the most intriguing plants.
They survive for weeks under water and emerge beautiful as nothing had happened to them. In fact they enjoy and benefit from the food the flood brings. They also survive months without rain living on rocks and rocky crevices and they bloom superbly beautiful.
Hummingbirds get in frenzy with hundreds of flowers spikes at bloom.
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