Dyckia splendens
today the habitat is included into a Municipal Reserve. An immense area was bought by an Energy Company and donated to the city as a municipal reserve.
The plant was a surprise to everybody.
This one is blooming by the very first time as it is a young adult plant. Old individuals have thick erect trunks and they resemble a dwarfened Araucaria pine tree.
They live on a almost vertical granitic slope facing North by the Canoas River. Some individuas grow on the area on top of the slpe in a small grassy field. This plants grows higher then the grass all around. Also the grasses are killed every winter by the deep frosts common in that region.
All the grasses turn into a very dry stubble during the winters and turn to regrow from seeds in spring.
This gives a chace for the Dyckias to germinate its own seeds among the weed.
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