This clump in one single plant!
The many crowns result from head divisions.
This plant must be much older than 100 years.

Some Dyckia species simply never clump and some are prune to that.
Some clump by crown divisions some by sprout emitting.
This species here produces very few seeds.
I visited this rock for more than 10 years and never saw a really  fat seeded flower stalk.
Dyckias are really going away....they seem to have long fulfilled their role in nature: bring other  material to the fields...algae and than lichens, mosses grasses....trees and than they are shadowed and perish.
 

 

Camp fires are a serious danger!

This is Dr. Walter Kranz a Dyckia expert.
 He hold a machete with his legs to a better hold the camera.
Notice the rock is huge.

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