Dyckia Brazil: February 2015

Feb 28, 2015

Dyckia reitzii rubra Fronteira (Frontier)

Feb 25, 2015

Dyckias, some modern hybrids just takes my breath away.

...and I just love it.

I climbed many mountains, I searched for Dyckias above the clouds
always searching for the ultimate beauty.
Those who sow a Dyckia seed sow more than just a seed, sow a dream.
Dreamers climb all mountains...not for the challenge of a edelweiss
but for the most beautiful Dyckia.

All dreams fit fine wihin a seed.

...

Feb 22, 2015

Come with us to see our southern alpine landscape and Dyckias , Campos do Quiriri Northeastern Santa Catarina in Brazil

Dyckia dussenii

Native alpine flowers

Those pine trees are invaders.

An extremely rare and endemic Erygium and Dyckias.

Dyckias

Let us climb to the clouds

Thar rocky mountain top houses this wonderful Dyckia dussenii.

Tibouchina flower..

Isn´t it spectacular?

Traces of cattle raising and fire.

Tibouchina

A stroll up to the clouds......

We passed the tree line.

Notice the hugeness, the majesty. In spite of being midsummer we were feeling cold.
That rocks are the home of many many beauties...

My friend and Botanist Jorge |Luís Wolff examining a Tibouchina plant

Jorge luís Wolf, Wilson Müeller and Osmar antônio Sbardelatti.

Fires are a common place here and Dyckias get relieved from the grasses attack.

No, not Dyckias. These are Eryngium.

Dyckias!

A stroll till the clouds. Caqmpos do Quiriri, an alpine rocky field Southeastern in Brazil

Dyckia dussenii

We were there too...abobe the clouds
Temperatures were always close to 5C°, and this is midsummer.

A Tibouchina in full bloom.

A whole year would not be enoug to see all just in one mountain.

Notice the namy stones and rocks.

a recent fire....

Dyckia dussenii

No, this is not a Dyckia.

This is a Paepalanthus alpinus

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