Dyckia Brazil: April 2014

Apr 30, 2014

Dyckia goehringii

The extremely fine graisns of its endument cover gives the plant an etherial and peculiar look.

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana Star of Brazil

Star of Brazil

This is, in my opinion, one of the best Dyckias of all.

It has desirable spines, leaf number, color, shape, size, white pigmentation....

Apr 29, 2014

Dyckia pottiorum

Rare and stunning beautiful....

Dyckia hebdingii Arco-íris, a breathtaking beauty.

Apr 28, 2014

Dyckia pottiorum

Is this odd, weird, strange, singular, new, elusory, whimsical, awkward, curious?

No, this is all this altogether, this is Dyckia pottiorum....

White Dyckia nana, maybe the smallest Dyckia species

Those who like them small..... fits any windowsill.

Apr 26, 2014

Dressed like a North German guy

This is a wool made typical North Germany shirt.
This is an original Hamburg fisherman shirt.

The plant to my left is a Hechtia and also came from Hamburg (years ago).

Danke. Vielen Dank, dass Sie meine Freunde in Deutschland.
Ich bin stolz auf dich. Ich danke Ihnen von mein Herzen Deutsch.

Above: Dyckia Via Lactea

Via Lactea on my left and Aro-íris on my right hand.

I made it and I am proud of it.

Dyckia Brittle Star X Dyckia delicata

Sure this one you never set eyes on.This is your first time ever.

It is a seedling and not well kept.

It needs attention and care.

Dyckia Brittle Star, original clone!

Isn´t it a star?

Dyckia just like a star....
Dyckia hebdingii blue X Dyckia Tarzan (by Bill Baker)

Dyckia reitzii rubra, isn´t it a ball of leaves?

Apr 24, 2014

Dyckia estevesii and Dyckia pottiorum

Apr 22, 2014

Dyckia hebdingii Arco-íris, a feast for the eyes....

Dyckia hebdingii Arco-íris (rainbow)

Dyckia hebdingii Arco-íris is one of the most spectacular Dyckia.

Its lateral sprouts will show many beauties, and they are already showing.

Apr 21, 2014

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana star of Brazil

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana Nels Christianson

Dyckia delicata-delicata

Two regional varieties of these wonderful plant got together

in my garden to produce this singular beauty.

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana star of Brazil

This is one of the mos ornamental fosterianas.

It resulted from the meting of two different regional fosterianas.

Apr 20, 2014

Dyckia pottiorum, an image says many words....

Dyckia pottiorum is a decubent (Leaves are lying down in spite of being distic.) plant but its leaves never touch the rock otherwise they would burn.
Instead they go backward in order to protect the trunk .
Notice the old dried leaves also have a role to play.

Nature tell us all. One just needs eyes to see and brains to think.

Apr 19, 2014

Dyckia ibiramensis

A Dyckia does not nedd to be white nor red to be splendid beautiful, does it?

Ibiramenis is a reophytic one from Hercílio river in Ibirama-SC.

Apr 18, 2014

A gift from a Dear Howdy guy deep into Texas

Nasty is the name of this beautiful big beast.

It from the land where everything is huge even the spines of a Dyckia

From deep into Texas vastness..it came to shine here in my garden.
Thank you Frank.

Nasty seems to be a Bill Baker masterpiece.

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