Dyckia Brazil: February 2018

Feb 23, 2018

More than a new finding a bombshell .......

Dyckia delicata?

Hummm, maybe yes and maybe no.
It is a brand new finding some 300km southwest Dyckia delicata lives in nature.
Thank to a Internet video made by trillers some Botanists saw something special and took the time to search for it. The land lord gave them permission to see the surroundings and several other species were there ans what a surprise a looking like delicata was there too and many many of them.

How this plant reached there?

Maybe delicata was never there ans chances are this plant is a natural hybrid. Flowers were never seen. This explains more than we see and know about Dyckias. How species differentiate themselves from each other? The southernmost Brazilian Dyckias are the most extensively studied ones.
Maybe long ago and far away in time we had just one single species and all we see today comes and derives from it. This primeval one Dyckia may be one Dyckia tuberosa. So all the modern species come from tuberosa and the mixes occurred in nature.

Rio Grand do Sul has many many natural Dyckia hybrids, many taken as species for they eluded scientists. Things are getting cleared thank to this South botanists group in Santa Maria Federal University, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria.

Here I hold the new brand new found one close to a typical true Dyckia delicta

We are anxious for its flowers, will they be yellow?
Seeds will be bigger? Racemous stalk or one unbranched one?

Dyckia neo-jonesiana

The super white form is a brand new finding

Feb 22, 2018

The small and cutie Dyckia neo-jonesiana

Dyckia neo-jonesiana was found in the center of the Southernmost Brazilian State, Rio Grande do Sul. It is quite similar to Dyckia jonesiana. Just recently a very white form was found also by Dr. Jones Caldas one of the most respected Brazilian Botanist, a fine physician and a super good fellow, a real trump guy. He uses to visit me and every time he brings me very special gifts, king gifts!.

Dr. Jones and Dona Sílvia his wife.

He with My beloved Raquel my wife.

We can talk for ages for he knows all it is possible to be know on Southern Brazilian Dyckias and more than this he irradiates joy for living and sharing. Silvia is always smiling. She is is the loveliest prenda (southern women are known so, prendas) one can find. I love them both.

Here we have a saying for a fellow like Dr. Jone who knows lots about one issues: um livro aberto, an open book and he his a living open book on Dyckias.

In March, 2016 he brought a Dyckia neo-jonesian to me:

This was found in the middle of Rio Grande do Sul the southernmost Brazilian state.

In 2017 Dr. Jones revealed during a phone call he found a super white form of Dyckia jonesiana, a shinning one, a so white plant it looks to be frost covered when the sky is blue.
..and he added "I have one and it is splitting in two, you will have one.

Now Dr. Jones brought it to me:

A small and super white shining beauty.

Feb 16, 2018

tyhe wonderful cute Dyckia fosteriana Sengés tarantula, a wilderness beauty. Seeds are available

Seeds are available under request

constantinog@terra.com.br

Feb 12, 2018

Dyckia sp from Apiúna - Santa Catarina Brazil

a fantastic white new found Encholirium in Minas Gerais

At the very first sight we thought it was Dyckia goehringii but it is not...

Nibert Lucas a biologist and a xeric enthusiast

A small plant under cultivation.

Notice the huge spines.

The plant is still suffering hence the rosed color and the funneled leaves.

Feb 11, 2018

The stunning beautiful small Dyckia fosteriana var. aracnoidea

Mimetic and cute it looks like a tarantula.

Seeds are included in February Dyckia seed list.

Feb 7, 2018

A NEW DYCKIA SEED LIST IS

CURRENTLY AVAILABLE

EMAIL ME PLEASE:

constantinog@terra.com.br

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Feb 6, 2018

Dyckia gastaldiana is a proposal as name.

Gastaldiana is found on top of the Three Pics Mountain, Montanha dos Tres Picos, in Lontras-SC.
Dr. Vilson has found some bright yellow individuals.
It snows there and it is quite impressive here in Brasil.

This is not a suffering plant. It is a true yellowish one.

Here one can see som Dyckias in there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac6m26xLmfA&t=85s

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