Dyckia Brazil: August 2014

Aug 31, 2014

Nels Christianson, that´s what friends are for!

Nels Christianson

We all want you to be fine and fit soon. Your heart is needing some maintenance and you will be back to my garden and our wilderness many many times.

Your are great and a plant lover. I adore to talk to you in perfect and impeccable Portuguese.

You love my country and we all love you.

Nels knew and met and was friend of all plant lovers in California , Bill Baker amid them.

Here I show him in my house

My wishes of a well and prompt bettering, afinal nós temos montanhas para subir, rios para atravessar, campos rupestres para examinar, Dyckias para descobrir.

We have many mountains to climb, rivers to cross, rocky fields to search, Dyckias to find....for we all love you.

Nels here in Santa Catarina-Brazil amid Dyckia brevifolia

Aug 29, 2014

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana unusual view

Some plants won´t produce lateral sprouts and one must rely on head divisions to get new plants.

This is a 6 yo plant, 8 robust old and separated plants, each produced by head divisions.

Aug 28, 2014

Dyckia magnifica

THE HOUSE OF DYCKIA
in Japan

http://thehouseofdyckia.blogspot.jp/

日本での私の友人のために、私はお勧めします....

To all my friends, Dyckia friends in Japan, The Sun Rising land.

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Dyckia gloriosoa, nothing compares to it

Dyckia gloriosa is a prostrated plant. Its leaves are so long they fall on the rock.

The resulting look is really impressive.

Yes, species! Native to Northeast in Santa Catarina, some 46 km uphills from my garden.

Seeds are abailable under request.

Dyckia magnifica!

Magnifica is one of the most spectacular Dyckia species.

It is no yet fully described and it is native to Santa Catarina southwest.

It belongs to the same group of delicatas and its seeds are even smaller than those of the delicatas.

Seeds are available under request.

Dyckia magnifica

Dyckia magnifica is a species native to Southwest here in Santa Catarina.

It presents huge strong spines and its seeds are very very small looking like cumin.

Dyckia chameleoan. Can you spot it?

Dyckia Tante (Lindelvaldeae X pectinata)

Aug 26, 2014

Dyckia Via Lactea (Milky Way)

I can´t stop looking at it and getting marveled.
Decidedly one of the most beautiful hybrids I made.

It is a one only!

Just one Milky Way in all Universe.

Unique....

Aug 25, 2014

Dyckia Liz Taylor, a wonderfull hybrid I myself made

Dyckia mirabilis X Dyckia delicata rubra

Dyckia delicata rubra and its seedling

Aug 24, 2014

A new brand new look....

A nameless hybrid Dyckia presenting exquisite markings.
We do not know this will get better looking, if these markings will endure till adulthood and more.

anyway it is a very good looking young plant, a Dyckia goehringii hybrid.

What about....
Dyckia chameleon?

It is a hard to spot one.

Nme suggested by my friend Clenilson Souza, a Brazilian Dyckia enthusiast.

A nameless hybrid Dyckia presenting exquisite markings.
We do not know this will get better looking, if these markings will endure till adulthood and more.

anyway it is a very good looking young plant, a Dyckia goehringii hybrid.

Dyckia pottiorum red, the new beauty....

Ready for blooming....

Aug 23, 2014

Dyckia pottiorum rubra. A jewel on rocks.

Dyckia pottiorum rubra

Dyckia pottiorum is recent find from Mato Grosso do Sul.

One of the most beautiful small Dyckias it is a fanned one and it grows flat to the rocks.
Flower stalks emerge in 90 degrees with the plant.

Aug 22, 2014

Dyckia reitzii rubra Fortaleza

A southern Brazilian native beauty.

It does loves some cold!

One of the most spectacular Dyckias of all.

Dyckia riosulensis, from Rio do Sul-SC

This is the first time ever this flowers are seen under cultivation. The plant was found by my friend Paulo Fernando Cé when mountain biking in Three Pics mountain in Rio do Sul .

I was born in Rio do Sul-Santa Catarina and it was a pleasure to find this plant and my friend since 1962.

Dyckia encholirioides, xantochromic specimen

Dyckia encholirioides xantochromic from Praia de Itaguaçu ( Itaguaçu Beach),

Northeastern Santa Catarina.

Xantochormismo is more frequently seen amid brevifolias but some rare encholirioides may present this

Aug 19, 2014

Dyckia encholirioides var. spinosissima

Here Rene Rau a friend of mine and neighbour doing the necessary cleaning.

More than a friend, a brave man.

Cleaning a Dyckia sometimes require, knowledge, skills, courage and a bit of boldness.

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