Dyckia fosteriana in nature

Pictures made in nature are helpful to those who wish to learn.

Notice the orquid,m the grasses and the young tree.

Dyckias are colonizers plants. they bring the other  vegetable to the hostile  place.

Before Dyckia just the fungi and algae (lichen) were there. These make the organic material, the substrate for  Dyckia to prosper on the rocks.

Above we see a pool of substrate ideal for  orchids, amaryllis, Dyckia, sinningia, cactus....
So why there is nothing but substrate in there?
This stays full of rain water for too long.
Sometimes we find carnivore plants in such pools. 
Nature talk to us, one just needs to have fit ears to listen to it.

If I stayed in there  for days on end it would not be enough to fully understand this habitat,
this complex environment.
Grasses are controled by forst that get them dry and fire that burns them to death.
Dyckias are well fit to survive fire.



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