Dyckia Brazil: January 2015

Jan 30, 2015

Jan 27, 2015

Sure, there are!
How to get there?
I need 40 years less than I am, a body as fit as a minotaur´s, a mind quite empty as snakes and scorpions and spider and all mosquitoes in the world are all there waiting for your juicy legs and hands...
Are There Dyckias there? No no one!

Here on bright clear Summer day...understand Dyckias´role in nature....

I took this picture yesterday nearby.
As the temperature was close to boiling, I took it from inside the car.

See this mountain. It is s only one solid granitic rock.

The bare rock is revealed by the tempest which waters made the trees to fall down and bring all others in its way down the monolithic rock mountain.

Huge trees are there. How come?
Well `cause once and thousands and thousands years ago there were likens and algae on the rocks...them the Dyckias came and them the grasses...the bushes, the trees.
Dyckias are colonizer plants and they are all under self extinction!!!
the trees make them die as they produce shadows and Dyckias won´t grow under shadows for they are Sun lovers.

This is in Schröeder, Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Jan 24, 2015

Dyckia goehringii white clone X Brittle Star

A Small promissing cute-cutie beauty

A seedling...nothing like a seedling..
It doesn´t matter speices or hybrid what really counts is beauty...

Jan 23, 2015

Dyckia encholirioides spinosissima

sinosissima shares the very same habitas as Dyckia encholirioides type form.

Spinosissima is a mid Summer bloomer while the type form blooms in early Spring.

Dyckia encholirioides type form

Dyckia encholirioides

Thisis a Spring bloomer and loves the salty breeze as it lives close by the ocean!
Many times the sea water spray covers them in nature.

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana X Dyckia Brittle Star

Jan 21, 2015

Dyckia delicata-delicata rubra

Jan 20, 2015

Dyckia pottiorum

Jan 18, 2015

Dyckia strheliana under the scorching Brazilian Summer sun

Dyckia strhelliana is a reophytic species found in nature in the center of the Southernmost Brazilian State,

Rio Grande do Sul.

When it is kept under burning summer sun it gets very colorful.

We say Summer outfit or Summer looking.

Jan 17, 2015

You can make your own exclusive Dyckia collection.

In a few days a new and the 2015 first Seed List will be available under request.

It will be close to 100 new options.

The world most extensive Dyckia seed list.

New looks, new forms and hybrids, new found species...

constantinog@terra.com.br

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Dyckia Brittle Star X Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana

Here the super white hooks are improving their size for the plant is still very young.
I am admiring the super white underleaves

Unnamed Hybrid I made.
Brittle Star acts ads amagic wand here and brings to eyes the dawsonii looks.

Jan 16, 2015

Dyckia pottiorum ...a pictorial show.

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