Dyckia Brazil: August 2020

Aug 11, 2020

Dyckia gastaldiana xanthic

Everything on the flower stalk is well covered by a rust-like dusting.

This is so beautiful and peculiar.

We sall follow the developing of thos flower stalk.

Below pictures taken in December-2018
Same plant.

Aug 7, 2020

..and I luv it every passing day

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

Yes, rare? No! Rare is a white vulture. This is a only one.

Imagine, there must be no other in the entire Universe.

This makes me wonder and wondering I get to know about you.

The other does matter!

My town, Joinville-SC Brazil, has been in the hottest point in Covide-19

The most attacked point in entire Brazil.

My dear Raquel is fighting breast cancer I am nursing her

and trying to be more than one. one company, one nurse, one shoulder, one maid, one gardener, one driver, one housekeeper, one cook, and one who prays and talks to God.

Many times tears overflow and the night is endless.
What one does when the one he loves the mos fades in front of his eyes.

My spirit gets so infimal when we hear "I am so frightened my dear. Is this dying?
Am I going to feel too much pain? " ...and I am useless!!!!

HOPE.

I wish you HOPE.

there MUST BE HOPE.

Sorry to be personal here, I beg your pardon.

This plant, this only one must be baptized HOPE.
Hope can not die, can not fade away.

I am about being 66yo. Yes, quite a lot. I thought I already knew all. How foolish was I!

Please say a prayer for Raquel is suffering.

God bless us all. Sorry.

Yes, we are not even close to rich and we are six months without sending a seed out the country.

We´re facing another desperation.

I must be brave and make Hope survive.

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