Oct 13, 2011

Bowl! This is Dyckia delicata rubra..Her Majesty Dyckia delicata rubra !!!!

Here we see one of her doubled crowns under  the morning Spring rain.
Can you wonder a better looking one?

Multi leafed, fat leafed, huge numerous soft and golden spines..
The plant has two opposing flat crowns as two opposing dishes.

Incomparable!
That is what it is....
People normally and usually imagine Dyckias as desert dwellers and growing on very hot places in Brazil.
This lives in a humid and cold region of the extreme Brazilian South.Used to some snow in winter and many frosts too. In fact it does not fine under endless summer conditions!!!
All delicatas are restricted to a very small part of two mountain slopes of a valley way down south in Brazil.
No Dyckia gets close to these one in therms of beauty and enchantment....no species and no hybrid up to now....

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