Dyckia Brazil: April 2013

Apr 30, 2013

What a hebdingii! Nice, small and full of leaves and blue...

Dyckia gloriosa native to NE Santa Catarina, Brazil

It is always so.
I am proud of this finding as I was able to get more than two dozens plants back to where it belongs in nature. It was an only one.

Seeds are available under request.

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..and the beauty is a beast....

Dyckia hb Keswick X ( Dyckia hb Bill Paylen X Dyckia hb Arizona)

Wow! ..and now I can make a friend happy here ..

Dyckia reitzii rubra gets closer and closer to its final look...

Apr 29, 2013

Dyckia reitzii rubra covered by the early morning dew

This beauty is getting redder as the days get shorter ...

Apr 28, 2013

Dyckia encholirioides spinosissima X Dyckia gloriosa

Apr 27, 2013

Dyckia hb Bela

This is a delicata rubra hibrid.

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Dyckia sp from Porto Alegre old Leprosarium area.
Something breathtaking beautiful and new.

April/May 2013

The newest seed list is ready and avalilable under request.

constantinog@terra.com.br

Dyckia sp from Tabaí- Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Dyckia reitzii rubra

Dyckia reitzii rubra
Early this Saturday Autumnal sunny morning.
This plant is about be much much morte colored than this.
We´ve been following this transformation here.

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Apr 26, 2013

Dyckia hebdingii

April/May 2013

The newest seed list is ready and avalilable under request.

constantinog@terra.com.br

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Dyckia fosteriana fosteriana

Zebra? Spider?
No!!
This is a reaction to a fungus attack!

Dyckia reitzii rubra
This striking beautiful beauty is getting redder every passing day as the cold short days of the winter get closer and closer. We are following this process here and all the changing.
This pictures were taken just a few minutes ago 08:00 AM, Friday early morning and the plant is drenched by the Autumn morning dew.

Apr 25, 2013

Dyckia excelsa, the pretty beast is about blooming...

Dyckia stolonifera

Apr 24, 2013

Dyckia goehringii
Now making flower stalks...

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