Dyckia Brazil: November 2012

Nov 30, 2012

Ich habe Freunde! Freunde unerlässlich. Ich habe Freunde auf der ganzen Welt. Freunde, die nie ausgetauscht eine Umarmung. Freunde, die eine dritte Sprache zu sagen braucht: Ich liebe dich. Danke mein deutscher Freund, das ist ein Schatz für mich und Sie auch sind.

Vielen Dank

This is one of the best publications in Bromeliads I ever saw.
A treasure with information we can rely on, trust on.
German are crazy about species and their work are something unbelievably beautiful.
Here where I live, South in Brazil, German feel at home, most of us speak German and we are all
fond of German food, and the beer, and they are everywhere here.

Nov 29, 2012

Dyckia ibiramensis rubra..I love it and I make it happen...

Dyckia ibiramensis rubra

This plant appeared amid thousands of seedlings.
In nature when a seedling , a normal one manages to grow it is a miracle.
Today this plant, Dyckia ibiramensis, is assisted in nature.

Never, a ibiramensis rubra was reported before no matter in nature or under cultivation.

Dyckia ibiramensis rubra a rarity among the rare

Dyckia hb Liz Taylor
It gets better and better looking everyday.

Dyckia discoides

A Brazilian southern beauty...so beautiful we have to see it over and over to believe our eyes....
Yes! Dyckia!
Just beginning to color up....

Nov 28, 2012

Dyckia reitzii X Dyckia ibiramensis

Two Southern beauties got together....

Dyckia braunii

Living together...growing together...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQLvhvRjBbs

This is one on many jewels I had the pleasure to get from Texas.
Friends..nothing compares to my friends...friends I never hugged...my most valuable treasure.
Howdy, Frank?

This is an almost black and white plant.
It was made with Dyckia hb Brittle Star and another deep red one also from Bill Baker.
This is a young sprout and I keep on wondering this plant a year ahead from now...

New and dazzling beautiful from way down South in Brazil...

Notice the shape and size,
The spines, no they are not black! They are deep blue!
Look the white ornamenting the spines.
This plant never bloomed here in my garden but it is trying to do it by the very first time.
A Dyckia will show its real face, its final mask only after having bloomed and never before this.

Nov 26, 2012

Dyckia insignis, how surprising are its flowers!

Look insignis flowers are so odd....
The petals do not open and are almost as hard as the sepals.
The female part is branched.
The flowers are scented!

Dyckia goehringii

Nov 25, 2012

Dyckia insignis

Dyckia insignis
A few big flowers ready to open...

Dyckia sp from Porto Alegre leprosarium

It is beginning to show its real coloration.
This beast is a feast for the eyes...

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