Dyckia Brazil: August 2018

Aug 25, 2018

Super white Dyckia hebdingii Via Brandão

Aug 22, 2018

A most spectacular hybrid

Dyckia reitzii rubra X Dyckia fosteriana cv. Start of Brazil

Its head is splitting in four.

Both parents are Southern native plants and both bear many many leaves

and form very dense crowns.

Aug 14, 2018

A most beautiful Encholirium sp

Encholiriuns are all solely Brazilian plants. They are not found anywhere else in the world.
They are restricted to central east and northeast regions in Brazil. Some are wide spread with its area and some have a very restricted area. Some are huge plants and some are amid the smallest bromeliads. This we see here is not yet described and it is pure white. Its scales are so tiny the whole plant shines under the sun. Encholiriuns are very close related to Dyckias and they cross in between them making fascinating bigeneric hybrids. I am looking for a Dyckia goehring and this beauty to get together in order to make hybrid plants.

Aug 12, 2018

Dyckia fosteriana-Sengés by our twilight

We can see three different Dyckia fosteriana Sengés forms.

Aug 8, 2018

Dyckia hyb Constantino it is a self fertilized Dyckia hb Brittle Star flower

Dyckia hb Brittle Star, its flower stalk proves it is a Dyckia fosteriana descent.

Dyckia hb Ocean Foam

I just cleaned it and many many leaves were removed for they are too breakable

almost to the point you touch it and it breaks as crystal.

Ocean foam is a light blue colored hybrid from a delicata and a Dona Francisca cross.

As you can see it we have a seven heads plant.

Next Summer I expect it to be in its full glory again.

Many many long narrow light blue colored leaves.

Aug 7, 2018

a most beautiful Dyckia fosteriana Sengés

If one Dyckia may be said to be cute this is the one.
Super white and dwarf fosteriana.

Dyckia pottiorum white or the crab Dyckia for it carries all in its back, flowers and sprouts.

Aug 5, 2018

Dyckia secundifolia

One of the most beautiful and ornamental Dyckias and it is not white.

Another wonderful cute Dyckia fosteriana var. Sengés.

Aug 1, 2018

An adult blooming cute Dyckia fosteriana Sengés

Dyckia fosteriana can present so many looks it amazes me.
This is one is one of the smallest and whitest.

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