Dyckia julianae, descrobed as species it is in fact a natural hybrid

 

Dyckia and company

 

Dyckia brevifoia var. subidensis

This is my favorite Dyckia.

Succulent, harmoniously small and not pigmy. It is fantastic and it is a run away pretty beast,no pot restrains it.

Dyckia hb Mercury a Bill Baker beauty

 Bill Baker, no long amid us, Dyckia lovers, was a pioneer in Dckia keeping, seeling and hybridizing them.

He rarely baptized his hybrids if he did. People used to by young hybrid plants not showing their final looks. Hybrids will show the final looks after blooming.

Some of his hybrids are  complex ones. Dyckia hb Mercury is one of them. Looking at its flowers we see clearly a Dyckia fosteriana  blood in it. Also we ca see Dyckia marnier-lapostollei as one of the first in its genetic line.

Bill lived in LA California and most of the new comercial Dyckia hybrids are descent from his hybrids.

I like Mercury as it is big enough to impress and even so small enough to fit gracefully in a common shelf .

This plant was sent to me by a Bill Baker close Friend some 20 years ago.

Dyckia secundifolia

 

Dyckia excelsa X Dyckia marnier-lapostollei. What a beauty!

This plant is not well protected from the heavy rain, this explains the bald areas.

 

Dyckias for the eyes delight

 

...just for the sake of being beautiful.

The yellowish one is a hybrid, brevifolia X reitzii and the other one is a very old Dyckia fosteriana var. Jariaíva-PR. See the very old trunk there.

A close Dyckia potiorum, not distic, related species.

 This is a totally green species from mato Grosso do Sul.

I does looks to be a Dyckia potiorum related plant.

Blooming here in my garden after  more than ten years of cultivation.

Dyckia bicolor from Rondonópolis Mato Grosso, now blooming

Yes, species! It comes from a deep agricultured area and it is 

in severe risk of extinction in nature

 

Dyckia tillandsioides

Rare and under description I just received three plants.

This all I can tell and say.

 

Dyckia delicata X Dyckia monticola var. campoalegrina

 

Hybrids are surprises!

This is getting colored.Once bare green and now it is getting multi colored. This transformation occurs just before the first blooming.

Dyckia sp Dom Bosco

 

Flat dark crowns. Dyckia delicata and reitzii rubra hybrid

 

Dyckia fosteriana nigra var. Jaguariaíva-PR

 Flowers are deep orange almost red and flowers sepals are well coated with the characteristic fosteriana  ferruginia dark brown dust.

La Petit Belle Now it has got a name...

La Petit Belle. The small Beauty.

Let us baptize it!

Golden Nugget, Pepita de Ouro, Pépite d´or

I baptize you as:

Dyckia Brevifolia variety subidensis Pepita de Ouro

Portuguese is my language so...

Pepita de Ouro 
 

Dyckia hb Caramelo or what a bit of a reitzii rubra does to a brevifolia

 

Dyckia hb Caramelo

Caramelo is caramel in Portuguese