Dyckia splendens
This is another Brazilian wonder, this time Santa Catarina native to.
Dyckias are the new frontier on the New World for the Cacti, Orchids and the other bromeliads are well known and a few ones or just none of them is left to be seen or find.
Dyckias by their side we have only just begun to see them. Almost nothing is known.
Most of them live in such unreachable places they are there as ever: unseen, untouched, unnamed, unimageble beautiful plants of this new New World last botanic frontier.
The classic old known Dyckia species are all from very easy to reach habitats. Most Dyckias live in places only
those adventurers fit like a Miura Spanish bull can reach.
Places retired, aged, sedentary swollen bellied ones can just wonder about and never wander in them.
Some Dyckias sites that make those unreachble and challenging Alpine Edelweises cliffs a thing for the young kids.
Scorching Sun, dusted roads that end up in nothing not even a trail. Hours walking inside jungles the Sun doesn´t touches the ground just to climb up a tropical mountain you keep on seeing just the greenery and not a hint of sky most of the way up. You have to carry everything on your backpack ´cause you will need to spend the night up there and upe there is cold during the night.
Once there you find out you are not as skilled or fitted as you thought and the outrageous beautiful plant lays up there attached to a vertical granitic cliff still a hundred meters above your out tongued beated to death figure. Unreachble...defiantly untouchble...
New beauties are for the newcomers, the new entrepeneurs, the adventures of the third Millenium.
New species will continue to appear for a long, long time to come.
Such new species are under no risk for we just can´t even get close to them.
This plant here tipifies what I say as it was found attached to a vertical granitic cliff of a river canyon
that was floaded by a damp constructuion. The plant once some hundred meters above our heads now is at
the reach of an arm.
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