Dyckia Brazil: August 2013

Aug 31, 2013

Rio do Sul- SC Newfound Dyckia species

This plant is a show in all and every its terms and means....

Up there we find sandstone rocks and fine white quartz sand.

New found Dyckia species in Santa Catarina - Brazil

New found, never seen before. Pictures taken today, 10 hours ago.
This is just an appetizer as I took more than 500 pictures.
A totally new to Science Dyckia species!
They were found high on a mountain at 966 meters high above sea level in Rio do Sul, Santa Catarina.
I was born in Rio do Sul August 30th, 1954.
This plant has a special meaning to.

If I had to describe it I would say a mix of reitzii and fosteriana.

This was a special hot day there but less than a week ago it snowed to
accumulate 30cm on the ground.

This is Djenes Dalfovo down there.

I must thank my friends,
Paulo Fernando Cé who first found the plant,
Djnes and Mileide Dalfovo who led me there.

Aug 30, 2013

Dyckia braunii setting two new blooms at once.

White Dyckia delicata in nature

Oddly enough this white cactus grows amid white delicatas in nature.
Isn´t it lovely?

Aug 29, 2013

Dyckia reitzii, young juvenile rubra type

Dyckia reitzii type form, young juvenile plant

Dyckia reitzii type form, adult plant.

Dyckia reitzii type form flowers

Dyckia reitzii rubra
Its blooming stalk is emerging....strong and healthy ..

Dyckia reitzi, a white one

Dyckia reitzii
A new found white one.

Dyckias, they do not cease to amaze me.
There are more, much more than the type form......

Aug 28, 2013

The newfound Dyckia reitzii rubra

New, new and amazingly beautiful Dyckia reitzii rubra.

The newfound Dyckia reitzii rubra.
Isn´t it gourgeous?

Aug 27, 2013

Today early morning close to delicatas habitat. (photo:LuisF. Assunção)

Foto: Não parece, mas é Gramado (RS), sul do Brasil. Linda imagem.

Today during this morning in Gramado-RS, close to where delicatas live.
Brazil is not a tropical place all over and less yt all throught the year.
We do have cold weather.

Dyckia reitzii rubra

Just photographed, a minute from now.
the flower stalk benefits from the late rainy weather.
Reitzii loves to bloom during winter, why? the must be a reason as nothing is for free in nature.

We are going to have self pollinates seeds here as I am prepared to isolate this beauty.
I am also planning some never imagined hybrids here.
My mind flies.
What about a delicata rubra one in here?
The first delicata rubra flowers will meet the last reitzii rubra ones.

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