Dyckia ibiramenis
This plant lives close to the running waters of the river Itajaí do Norte also known as River Hercílio in the skirts of Ibirama a lovely little town in Santa Catarina Brazil.
This is also where I spent my childhood and most of my best days. This plant was always a rarity.
It can grow almost to a adult knee and produces very beautiful yellow flowers.
The plant is not an eye catcher and it all leads to the conclusion it was ever rare.
It was used to the occasional river floods and used to stay under water for weeks. It has been more than 25 years since these floods do not happen ´cause the big dam built way up the stream into one native Indian reserve. This may have contributed for the limitation of this plant.
Also all rarity are very limited to a poor amount of gen diversity.
This plant is faded to extinction no matter what we do unless it stays forever under our control.
This for sure is a role our Public Botanic Garden must take for their own.
The plant blooms easily and seem to have already problems concerning to fertility. It does makes self but most of the seeds are not fertile.
The plant clones eagerly.
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