Dyckia Brazil: September 2010

Sep 30, 2010

Dyckia Chão de Estrelas

Dyckia delicata cyanophylla one of the most stunnig Dyckia representatives.

It is almost impossible to find any other Dyckia species to rival.

Dyckia delicata cyanophylla grows amid the type form one

in nature.

Sep 29, 2010

Dyckia Icicle and its bloom.

another American hybrid and a dazzling one...

Sep 28, 2010

Dyckia noelii

Rare and under description new species from Northeastern

Santa Catarina Uphills.

Dyckia argentea, or the closer we can get to it.

Dyckia argentea

Its descriptiona as so many faults we will never know what

a real Dyckia argentea is in fact.

This is from Serra do Lenheiro in Minas Gerais.

Sep 27, 2010

Dyckia sp Lagoão- RS

The kaleidoscope Dyckia

This is a Dyckias species that presents individuals in any color, red, wine, yellow and golden, green of any hue.

Dyckia sp Lagoão-RS and Dyckia Brittle Star.

Dyckia Picante and Dyckia Brittle Star

on a rainy morning

Dyckia Brittle Star

Dyckia Brittle Star is one of the most famous and beautiful Hybrid Dyckias.

This is a Bill Baker masgterpiece and

Steve Ball gift to me.

Dyckia belíssima

Sep 24, 2010

Dyckia Belíssima

A Dyckia fosteriana Hybrid.

Sep 23, 2010

Dyckia sp Laogão-RS

Light pink one.

Springtime again......

It is Spring time here since 00:05 AM today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7LAyb336os&feature=related

Dyckia joanae-marcioi

Native to North Minas Gerais

Under cultivation its leaves may be 30cm long.

Dyckia species native to alto Uruguai River close to
Santa Catarina and Rio grande do Sul border.

Sep 22, 2010

Dyckia fosteriana nivosa

Sep 21, 2010

Dyckia Chão de Estrelas

Dyckia marnier-lapostollei X Dyckia brevifolia

Dyckia Brasília

Dyckia marnier-lapostollei X Dyckia brevifolia

Native to Santa Catarina this plant bears one of the most unique Dyckia floral stems.

Dyckia splendens is a name suggestion.

Dyckia Belíssima
This unknown hybrid named Belíssima....

Sep 20, 2010

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana

No, not a Dyckia marnier-lapostollei but a unnamed plant also from Goiás.

Sep 19, 2010

Dyckia goehringii

One of the most looked after plant.

Dyckia Luar, a hybrid by myself made.

Dyckia Luar

Dyckia sp Campo alegre-SC and Dyckia pectinata

Dyckia sp, what does this mean? ...and what else?

Dyckia sp is the very same as Dyckia species, in fact short for Dyckia species. It refers to an unnamed Dyckia species.

A Dyckia sp can not be a hybrid Dyckia and never a Dyckia you do not know the name but a nameless Dyckia species. The fact that you do not know the plant it does not mean a nameless one.

A new Dyckia species must be published in order to have its name valid. This obligation doesn´t counted on Iternet publications as The World Wide Web didn´t exist and publication meant : journals, books, magazine, scientific report magazines.

Nowadays nothing is better published than in the WWW.
Publishing means getting public and there is nothing equal nor close to the WWW.

Public means everybody not just a bunch of selected guys.
These are mates, collegues, fellows not public. Here people publish new Plant species on very restricted magazine or very specialized magazines and assume as published. Publishing means everybody who is willing to know of it. Also the world doesn´speaks Portuguese, nor spanish and less than this doesn´t understand old Latim ( Not even those who publishes a new species. They rely on claves and many mistakes are made.) Today publishing means WWW!!! Today it means English!! If a new species is published here in Brazil it must be in Latim as in any other place on the Earth, Portuguese and for God´s sake also in English and entirely not a sinopsis only. Publications with a very restrictec and exclusive public is out of question. Publications with on purposal omitted data is also out of question and not valid. A bunch of readers is not public. A group of readers are collegues never public!!!Public is WWW and your reader may be in Reykjavick or Auckland, Rio or Tokyo and everywhere in between. Portuguese is a lovely sounding language. It makes feel home...but who is going to undertand me in ...in...everywhere else besides people which countries speak Camões´ language? English, English for Gods´sake.
Also there is no sense publising without precise data.
Preservation means showing, educating not hidding an less yet iluding.
What Light is for if it doesn´t Brighten up high above everything? Light is to iluminate or it is not Light and if it isn´t Light it isn´t Science!

Species and Hybrids understand their names

Understand Latim names. Latim names identify species. Usually they have two words. The first one begins with a Capital letter and the second doesn´t. The second identifies the species and the first tell the genus it belongs to.
e.g. Dyckia brevifolia
Dyckia is the genus and brevifolia the species (brevi = short folia = leaf)

e. g. Dyckia MammaMia
Hybrid plant , the second name also begins with a capital letter.

Do you want to know lots about this?
Are you willing to know what is in a Botanical name?
Hit:
http://www.plantapalm.com/wianame,htm