Jul 2, 2010

Dyckia fosteriana and the lost track back to it...

Dyckia fosteriana

One of the most common Dyckia plants to be found outside Brazil is Dyckia  fosterina.
Everybody seems to have one. Also this is one of the rarest pure strain to be found anywhere outside Brazil. Even famous Botanic Gardens were anable to mantain the pure strain.
I would say this is the one thousand looks plant. They are so common people say they do no want  it  and the are so commom...But their eyes were never set on a true one live and alive Dyckia fosteriana.
In my opinion this is one of the rarest plant to be seen outside Brazil. Dyckia fosteriana was so intesively and intensionally used in crossing people lost its track back to the pure strain.
In fact we hardly find a hybrid without ant trace of fosteriana in its blood strain.
American hybridizers used fosterina plant to exhaustion and weariness.
Every hybrid shows a bit of it. Soon every one had a pure strain  Dyckia fosteriana of their own and the  fosteriana circus was installed.
I think this is all fun and hybrids are really fantastic plants but we should never loose the pure strain plants and not just have a notion or a glimpse of them.
I saw two or three plants that really look as they are pure strain in a stroll to the Internet pages.
Dyckia fosteriana at the time of its spreading all over the globe was now just form from one population close to  the State of São Paulo border in Paraná. In fact we have found many regional varieties all in the State of Paraná since then. We have found small differences in every regional varieties and some revealed to be stunning beautiful ones.
Of course Dyckia fosteriana must be revisited.
We have found  fosteriana within the last remains of a kind of leftover of an old Cerrado land
that extented down South to the North Santa Catarina border. Emboque, Sengés, Marialva, Tibagi, Lapa, Santo Antônio do Arapoti, Jaboti, Jaguaraíva...
Hybrids with two regional varieties are  revealing a beauty  to allure any collector.
We´ve only just began....


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