Dyckia Brazil: February 2011

Feb 28, 2011

Ladies and gentlemen this is Lydia, Dyckia Lydia...a majesty is just born....

Dyckia hb Lydia

Home made myself.

Still very, very young and everything lies ahead...

Dyckias only get better as time passes by.

Imagine Lydia a year form today...

Lydia´s parents are amid the most spectacular Dyckias of all.

Take a good look on Lydias´s parents below.

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana Star of Brazil isx Lydia´s father.

Also home made myself.

Below is Lydia´s mother.

Dyckia goehringii

The best from the Brazilian rocks.

Feb 27, 2011

DYCKIA FOSTERIANA-FOSTERIANA...AND I LOVE IT SO......

Seed pod loaded Dyckia magnifica flower stems.

The thin branches bend down by the weight

Just the top axial seed pods are self fertilized seeds.

All the others are Dyckia delicata fertilized

Feb 25, 2011

Dyckia stenophylla X Dyckia beateae: a new look on the rock

This cross produced all green plants.They are all equal looking.

Beautifully shaped and as green as a parakeet.

Long thin leaves and in large number.

This is a young plant.

Feb 24, 2011

Dark red leaves and the white/light blue/silver Dyckia marnier-lapostollei

One of the whitest Dyckia species. Dyckia marnier-lapostollei

and

a hybrid dark red Orthophythum

Together.....

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana Star of Brazil - Top right

Dyckia sp green Lagoão-RS - Top left

Dyckia hb delicata type X Dyckia sp Lagoão-RS

The perfect match: Dyckia Icicle and Dyckia hb delicata X Dyckia lagoão

Notice the colors.

Imagine a group of them amid rocks in a perfect balance..

Dyckias do great in groups, large shallow basin like pots.

Dyckia delicata from Perau doTomba Bodes (Tipping Goat Slope)

Stand you up...

Stood still...

Her majesty: Red Dyckia delicata

"...once on a hight and windy hill

in the morning mist..."

There it was!

"...have you ever dreamt of a place...far away from it all?"

Where the dreams kiss the rocks...and are leafed..sprinkled with silver dust...

Dyckia Bill Paylen, a the top most ......

...and my heart melts, splits in two and blooms....

That ´s the magic in it...

Thanks to Steve from The Milk and Honey Land...

There where dreams come true!

California.

Feb 23, 2011

Dyckia sp Lagoão or Dyckia sp delicata affinis - Lagoão-RS - rubra

Ruby...this is it! Ruby

Dyckia Ruby Snow

"...they say Ruby you are like a flame,

into my life you came.

...and though I should be aware, still I just don´t care

You thrill me so. I only know...

Ruby it´s you."

Thanks, David! Many,many...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjIGU4BCpn8

Dyckia brevifolia Yellow Glow

In my opinion one of the greatest Dyckias.

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana

They rarely sprout and splitted heads are used for multiplying fosteriana-fosteriana

Feb 22, 2011

A particulary beautiful green Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana

Green Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana are impressively rare.

Almost all dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana are rubra ones.

Orthophythuns are entirely Brazilian native plants.

Orthophythum magalhaesii, young juvenile plant.

These plants may do a nice figure amid Dyckias.

Recently, their species number more than doubled.

Brazil is a vast territory and some spots were never seen by the brave green minded guys.

Orthophythum leprosum wild colected close to Jaguaré ES.

Basal sprout at the collected plant.

This plant presents some variation in nature.

This one is the most endumented one.

Below, a home made O. saxicola and O. magalhaesii hybrid.

Just two dreams ago......

Just a dream ago...and a step back.

A dream plant....

Can´t you sew? Take a small brush imagine a year from now...the lavender breeze..birds singing.

Look down..all minute...you are over the rainbow....way up high. It is exactly there...over the rainbow. We shall meet there...always there.

Feb 21, 2011

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana..say WOW!

One breathtaking beautiful Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana, above.
Below, you open mouth to an all white Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana

No this is not a painting..no canvas here.

The white beauty is a hybrid I made Dyckia marnier lapostollei and Dyckia delicata.

I just love it.

The copper one is a species! Dyckia sp Lagoão or the kaleidoscopic Dyckia.

Dyckias dos so...fill the eyes to the top most level and better yet:

Dyckias bloom and bloom and bloom and only get better looking as time passes by.

Contrary to many others they do not pass away as timer and blooms pass.Their blooms are for celebration.
Below the Fosteriana-fosteriana makes it difficult to choose.

Dyckia delicata red from the Tipping Goat Slope an some lyrics glamour...

Hummm..are u sure luv is the many splendorous thing?

I wouldn´t be that sure...

..but you can always cry me a river over me...

...then once on a high and windy hill...

in the morning mist...we all stood still...

Color, vigor and Dyckia companion and fascination

In my opinion and under the eyes of mine...nothing rivals to the fascinating

Dyckia brevifolia Var. Golden Glow..a topmost beautiful man made one.

It is fascination...I know...

Dream!

All man made plants but the Orthophythum leprosum here.

This is bettering.

Below Dyckia Icicle and a red Hybrid Ortho. I do not even know the name...

Who does? Both human masterpieces...deserve a museum...a living one.

Orthophythum...they are all Brazilian

They are endemic to my place.

some went out and returned fancier than

ou nature could have made...beautiful...

Perfect Dyckia companions...

Feb 20, 2011

All man made plants...a show of color on the rocks....

All here got a man hand to get even more beautiful except the green brevifolia. All these were dreamed before, wished before, seen before even being real....Dreams are for real!

Orthophythum hyb Brittle Star doing fine in Brazil

Orthophythum Brittle Star or...

...when some Brazilian citizens get back home even fancier.

Paul, from Arkansas... and I never saw a saw saw like the saw we saw saw in Arkansas.

Beauuuuutiful plant! Thanks!

Carnival

Color up your pallet

The red hybrid Orthophytum are sprouts from the flower bractea.

They are here just for the picture, they are not planted here,

only stunning Dyckia brevifolia Yeloow Glow are.

Don´t you think it is Carnival in Rio?

Dyckia magnifica seed pods

It seems no flower was missed.

We are about to have Dyckia magnifica and Dyckia delicata hybrids as well as

Dyckia delicata and Dyckia magnifica ones.

What lies ahead? Beauty, certainly....new looks

Dyckia hb Tante

One of the most spectacular new hybrids...

Dyckia lindelvaldeae X Dyckia pectinata.

Have you seen a better looking one recently?

Made by Dra. Apolônia Grade

Feb 19, 2011

Dyckia excelsa....spectacular!

Dyckia excelsa

...one of the whithest dyckia species....

Dyckia Picante

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