Dyckia Brazil: November 2017

Nov 25, 2017

Dyckia paraensis, one of the most beautiful ones

Dyckia parensis
Native to southern Pará, it is an Amazonian species.

Its singular beauty attracts all eyes.

Nov 13, 2017

A wonderful Hybrid I made here...I do love hybrids

HYBRIDS....
Hybrids do preserve the species for they diminish the collect pressure on them in wilderness. Besides they are more resistant to misleads and prune to adapt any cultural management. Most are evem mopre beautiful than their parents. Species are only preserved in the fields, N o collection preserves any Dyckia species. When out of their native fields any plant is suspicious to say the very least. I do love hybrids.

This is Nasty an American made marvelous plant.

Below we see nameless Hybrid I made myself.

Nov 11, 2017

Dyckia fosteriana-Sengés super, ultra white

Yes!
Dyckia fosteriana and true true one!!!

Nov 10, 2017

My "Howdy" friend from Texas, Frank...a drear friend of my and a wonderful grandfather

Brittke

Brittle Star X Arizona

Well, I live surrounded by Dyckias in nature and I do love hybrids.

Nothing like hybrids to preserve species.
Hybrids are prune to adapt to cultivation and most of all, they are pretty good looking.

None preserves species under culture for once a plant leaves the rock field it is not trusted anymore as species...Species are on the field!

I love my friend Frank and he is beloved by God.

I embrace you dear.

Bellow I show my Dyckia hb Milky Way

Dyckia Brittle star X Dyckia hebdingii

Yes, species.

This is an alpine Brazilian Dyckia species.

I makes this sort of blooming up on the mountain and here under cultivation.
We are wondering it is a hormonal distortion or a natural characteristics.

Nov 8, 2017

This small superb Dyckia fosteriana Sengés is a sight to be hold.

Seeds are available under request.

Nov 6, 2017

Orthophytum vagans variegated Roberto Menescal, a wonderful walking beauty

Vagans is latin for wandering and this is true this guys walks!
Vagans is walker for latin or in Portuguese andarilho.
Not a Johny Walker but an Ortthophytum that fits fine in any collection.

Roberto Menescal is a Brazilian bromeliad lover and a poet and a singer.
Our "Bossa Nova" songs owns him its best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QrJ3XH-ujU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrhoanLdIWg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZGHIzE2lOA

Nov 2, 2017

Yes, Dyckia hebdingii....Yes, there are many hebdingii looks.

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