Dyckia Brazil: March 2020

Mar 25, 2020

Dyckia brevifolia var subidensis xantic colorful seedlings

These seem to be super colorful; They are not the famous and beautiful Golden Glow. These descents from Dyckia brevifolia var subidensis collected by me in nature. Xanthic individuals are more commonplace amid this variety and as Golden Glow, the color is not fixed year round. They get solely green during our winter months in Santa Catarina - Brazil when the days are much shorter nd the light is pale. All in all these re marvelous small plants.

Notice how colorful they get.

Bellow, you see an old clump of Dyckia brevifolia var. subdensis.

They are smaller than the brevifolia type.

They are falling from their pot, spilled they hang down their pot.

the type form was collected close to where this exists in nature.

The xanthic comes from these plants.

Dyckia falcata X Dyckia brevifolia. The result is breathtaking

A Dyckia monticola seedling that gets more and more colerful every passing day

This is a seedling and the variegation is full, total.

Dyckia reitzii rubra X Dyckia brevifolia subidensis

Notice the intricate drawings on the leaves. Red spines and green marginated leaves.

Vriegated Dyckia monticola

A beauty your eyes won´t forget.

On the background, you can see a Dyckia hb Dakota.

Xantic Dyckia gastaldiana is a golden fountain

Native to my hometown in Santa Catarina uphills it is used to frosts and a occasional snow.

It lives up on Tres Picos moutain.

Dyckia sp from Chapada dos Veadeiros, up North in Goiás

Some individuals can be luxury colored

They come from the heart of Brazil up North in Goiás

In the background you see Dyckia gastaldiana

Mar 4, 2020

A fine Dycki reitzii rubra hybrid

I like hybrids as they tell more than one can hear.

The mother plant here was a Dyckia reitzii rubra and the father plant was a fosteriana.

Both southern native plants here in Brazil and both are multi leaved plants.

See two distinct marks, the white underleaves, and the leaf tips.

The leaf tips denote this is a Dyckia reitzii descent. Margins are kind of lifted upwards near the point of the leaves.

This hybrid can stand mild frosts and as both parents, it is multiplied by head divisions only.

A young Dyckia monticola seedling, well variegated

All indicates this marvel will turn to be very colorful.

Variegated Dyckias are all guessing.

We all know too few about 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