Dyckia Brazil: July 2016

Jul 31, 2016

Dyckia julianae is not a species as described but a natural hybrid. Dyckia hebdingii X Dyckia chorestaminea

Jul 30, 2016

Unconspicuous...this is a Dyckia hb Invisible

Jul 28, 2016

Dyckia hb Branca de Neve (Snow White)

One of the whitest and most beautiful hybrids.

Jul 27, 2016

Dyckia mezii once it was Dyckia argentea

seeds are available under request

constantinog@terra.com.br

The Variegated Dyckia monticola slowly get used to its new surroundings

Dyckia sp subidensis blooms again

Seeds are available under special request

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Dyckia sp apiunensis, one of the best looking new found species

Dyckia disstiflora = Dyckia nervata = Dyckia unguiformis

Bahia in Brazil in spite its large territory it is a Dyckia poor place.

Just a very few Dyckia species are native to Bahia and some are synonymous.
this plant her acquires a unguiformis (claw like) shape when terribly dried and stressed.
This is a very interesting behavior ina Dyckia that lives in a very inhospitable area.

The plant uses its foliage to protect its growing area flapping over to one side.

The name nervata referes to the visible lines and unguiformis to the shape of a suffering plant.

Jul 25, 2016

Brothers! Brothers´ first bloom

The super red

Mary them would give rise to some fascinating gems.

The super white

Jul 23, 2016

I do love this small crowns...

Dyckia brevifolia var. subidensis.
It presents small pale green yellowish crowns,

perfect ones and the plant grows exactly as a Deuterocohnia.

Dyckia monticola is a rare souther mountain dweller

Jul 22, 2016

Dyckia encholirioides is a sea coast dweller and it can not be found away from the sea. If it does not hear the southern Atlantic Ocean waves it won´t be happy..

No matter how many habitats we´se seen and visited it is always thrilling.
It is always a first time ever....and we do not cease learning...

Dr. Jones (Dyckia jonesiana), Dr. Vilson, Dr. Henrique, Dr. Rodrigo Pontes (Dyckia pontesii).
Southern Dyckia lovers and friends of mine. they together know more about Dyckia than an ecyclopedia. A book must rise from those brains.

Dr. Vilson, me, Dr. Henrique and Dr. Jones.

What a vision!

This is the Restinga vegetation and Dyckia encholiriopides habitat in Northeast Santa Catarina.
A cold and windy place during winter.

Restinga is a most important habitat close to the sea and on the sand dunes.

Without it this place would be a desert.

This stays a kilometer from Vilson´s house in Barra do Sul-SC

Dyckia encholirioides and Dr. Henrique...imagine this place when these plants are in full bloom.

Drs. Henrique and Vilson, young prestigious Brazilian botanists.

The future belongs to them....

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