Dyckia Brazil

Dyckias...These creatures of the Light are mostly Brazilian. Many of them are still to be seen by the very first time. Come on in. Let us see some. This Blog was created to show you the plants in my garden and also help you to keep happier Dyckias. This is the beginning of the book:THE ALLURING DYCKIAS. I may share some seeds with you. This way we help Dyckias to be known, understood and cherished. Email me at: constantinog@terra.com.br Constantino Gastaldi -Brazil ... 55-47-3425-8085

Jan 26, 2011

Dyckia goehringii

Dyckia goehring

This is one of the most beautiful plants native to Central Brazil.

Jan 25, 2011

Dyckia sp Lagoão-RS red

Magnificent to say the least.......never seen out from DyckiaBrazil.

The most effective Dyckia pollinator is a Bumblebee

Our bumblebees are masters on pollinating Dyckias

Dyckia magnifica almost there.....

Dyckia magnifica

A rarity from Santa Catarina is ready to show its minute yellow flowers.

This species presents a very branched flower stem. These branches are very long and thin and in time they all bend down.When in full bloom the plant seems to be crowned by a small yellow conifer.

The name magnific comes from it bloom but the plant is a luxury itself.

Dyckia joanae-marcioi

..a lot bigger than we were made to believe....

Dyckia delicata cyanophylla

Dyckia delicata cyanophylla

One of the most beautiful Dyckia species of all.

Native to South here it can not stand cultivation under continuous the Summertime

of the tropics. It needs the annual winter rest to survive.

Loves cold nights and some mild frosts are deeply welcome.

Dyckia tenebrosa X Dyckia marnier-lapostollei

Here Dyckia tenebrosa propitiates a rare view out from the commom place

of the old classics hybrids.

When we mean Dyckia hybrid we lately rarely see something really new, new and breathtaking.

The exhaustive and too ample use of the old Dyckia classic species and hybrids created

a myriad of almost the very same old looks with little or no variation.

In most cases it does takes a specialist to tell any apparent difference.

Dyckia Bill Paylen..the Beauty lives here.

Dyckia Bill Paylen

A William Baker master piece or...

when beauty exacerbates itself.

Dyckia magnifica bloom....

Dyckia magnifica

Native to Santa Catarina, a never saw before bloom.

Flowers will be yellow and minute and attached to long and thin branches of a tall flower stem.

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana

Size here does matters and the smaller seems to be the better.

Dyckia fosteriana is one of the most known classics and one of the most long lost due to hybridizing.

We can find an extravaganza of looks when we mean Dyckia fosteriana.

It varieties are among the least known bromeliads.

This plant here pictured is resulted from a cross of two Dyckia fosteriana varieties.

Jan 22, 2011

Dyckia reitzii type form

Dyckia reitzii

This plant won´t go if maintened under continuous hot climate

Jan 19, 2011

Dyckia hebdingii flowers

Below we see the plant after rain when its scales are not visible.

Jan 17, 2011

Dyckia sp Lagoão-RS

Dyckia sp Lagoão-RS Red

Here it is getting doubled...

Fill up your eyes with beauty ...

Bath your eyes with the beauty...

Drink of it...savor it...

Keep dreams in your heart...

...and live.

Dyckia sp from Lagoão-RS most probably a Dyckia delicata affinis.

Jan 10, 2011

Dyckia Tarzan

A Bill Baker´s fine creation

Jan 8, 2011

Something to gasp.....

From Rio Grande do Sul....

Dyckia Tante

This is a Brazilian made Hybrid.

Dyckia lindelvaldeae X Dyckia pectinata

Author: Dra. Apolônia Grade

Dyckia joanae-marcioi

It is much bigger than it is supposed to be.

Jan 3, 2011

Dyckia Estrela D´alva

Estrela d´alva or guiding star is a hybrid made by Robson Lopes who used Dyckia lindelvaldeae

as mother plant and Dyckia tuberosa has the pollen donator.

Jan 2, 2011

Dyckia sp Lagoão-RS

The first one to appear here in 2011.

Happy New Year.

One needs to keep many dreams to make some come true...

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