Dyckia brevifolia in a a garden center here in Joinville, Santa Catarina Brazil

Dyckia brevifolias produced by seeds.

Look how beautiful and healthy they are.

This is another primary hybrid. It is young but already showy.

Dyckia delicata var. Tomba Bodes X Dyckia encholirioides var. spinosissima.

Spines are getting bigger and the plant is getting colorful I wished it to stay green.

Shinning green, no scales plants are beautiful.

Dyckia brevifolia always makes fine hybrids

The typical Dyckia under leaf lines are well preserved.

Leaves are very well waxed so this plant shines.
This is a primary hybrid , made with two species plants.

Fine shaped and deep-colored, a sight to behold.

This is really a bright shining star.

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Dyckia gastaldiana xanthic blooming by the very first time

Dyckia gastaldiana xanthic

I suspect some Dyckia fosteriana relation here. 

Let us follow closely.

Here the very same plant in late March:

Hybrids are made to be beautiful....

Dyckia brevifolia var. Golden Glow

Self-pollinated seeds result in a 100%  free of chloroplasts seedlings (total alba seedlings). They die after consuming the seed energy reserve as they can´t get energy by themselves.

...but the flowers do accept alien pollen and produce fantastic plants as well the flowers can pollinate alien flowers with success.

Dyckia pottiorum can vary colors but the architetural project is the very same

Here a group of them in a shallow ceramic basin.

Orthophytum lemei and Orthophytum toscanoi

When not in full bloom it is almost impossible to tell them apart.

O. toscanoi is in front. O. lemei has dark-colored floral bracts and both show tiny white flowers.

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Dyckia nigrispinulada a giant living ball from southern vertical walls

 Juliano perozzo is the wall climber here
A wonderful picture taken by southern vertical wall climbers from Caxias do Sul-RS .

Thanks to Lise Severo and  Juliano Perozzo. Here this granitic wall shows some beautiful Dyckias. Notice their sizes comparing with the climber.

https://youtu.be/56G0qjmwC5c 

Here you can watch the climber getting close to the old Dyckia nigripinis  in Vila Cristina Wall.
This is north in the southernmost Brazilian State, Rio Grande do Sul.
Thanks to Juliano Perozzo

Dyckia hebdingii X Dyckia brevifolia var. subidensis

The best of each parent are tied here

Dyckia irmgardiae, another southern native one

Tiny black spines and long straight narrow leaves  and a white scale coated rosete center

describe it.

Dyckia encholirioides var. spinosissima X Dyckia delicata

Red, white and variegated plants are so sought after that the green ones are rare. ...and they

are gorgeous. Long numerous soft golden thorns on light green foliage turn this 

seedling into a spectacular promise.

Dyckia monticola variegata, one of the bet variegations on a Dyckia, full and colored