Dyckia Brazil: October 2012

Oct 31, 2012

Dyckia reitzii rubra
Bellow we see some cold burns.

Yes, magnificent!
Still improving... this is a Dyckia sp hebdingii affinis.

Oct 30, 2012

Dyckia hb Chris Rogers, by Bill Baker

Dyckia hb Chris Rogers

...another Bill Baker master piece.

Dyckia ibiramensis rubra

Dyckia ibiramensis rubra is the rarest amid the rare ones....
First bloom!

Dyckia hebdingii

Dyckia sp from Paraguay

Nothing to call back home but flowers are beautiful.
Proeminent spines.

Oct 29, 2012

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana var. Nels Christianson

I named this plant Nels Christianson to celebrate his first visit to my garden two years ago.
Nels lives in Santa Monica, California and he is fond of plants and font of Brazil.
He is a very good soul and has many friends.

This plant is no doubt one of the top most beautiful fosterianas of all...

Oct 28, 2012

Collected Dyckia brevifolia variety
It gets deep yellow when the Spring and the Summer sun shines....

Dyckia hb Liz Taylor!!!!

Dyckia dawsonii
I just got to know William Baker found himself this plant in Brazil.

No one else spotted it in nature as long as we know....of course.

A ruby Dragonfly perched on a Dyckia ibiramensis rubra flower stalk

Dyckia discoides
Isn´t it gorgeous?

Wordless!
Speechless!
Frank, frankly...I love you!

So beautiful it aches in the eyes!
A gift from my howdy friend!
A respectable man, a man of honor, a man of word, a friend of mine.
I love all my friends for they all allow me to make myself a better human being.
Howdy, my friends in Texas, Howdy!
..as for this plant..oh..this is a gorgeous one, a splendid one, a spectacular one....and believe me just one amid many, many, many....
I guarantee I must own the most comprehensive Bill Baker Dyckia collection outside USA.
..and guess what? All and every one are gifts my friends gave to me.
I am proud of my friends, proud of you...
I am doing my best to show you some of the Dyckias secrets...the keep many....
We are just crawling into their secrets.
If I was a young man I would be a botanist and also continuing being a dreamer.

You, you far away from me, you who sleeps when I awake, you who speaks languages
I can not even imitate, you who loves Dyckias and their beauty: Thank you!
I love you!!!
No matter where you are, count on me!
Count on me! I am here to help!

Oct 27, 2012

Dyckia hb Brittle Star

Dyckia catharinensis

...a time of plenty.

Oct 25, 2012

Dyckia hb keswick x (Dyckia hb Bill Paylen x Dyckia hb Arizona)

I just love this beauty!

.

Dyckia brevifolia in habitat......

Sad, sad, sad .......

This bush bellow are Raulinoa echinata, it shares home with Dyckia brevifolia.
Raulinoa honors its descriptor Father Raulino Reitz.

Bumblebees are one of the main pollinators here....

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