Dyckia Brazil

Aug 5, 2012

Cold damaged Dyckia reitzii

The place where these beauties feel fine and call it home is one of the coldest spots in Brazil and temperatures can drop to -20 Centigrade. Normally this does not last longer than a nightstand each time and it vanishes with the morning sun but when it does last longer than this the more exposed individuals really suffer.

..but the ice cold times seem to be just a bothering thing and nothing capable of really killing the plants.
They are alive and blooming...

Dyckia reitzii rubra

Now you know the reason it is a rare one in wilderness:

Real cold nights can kill them as they are more susceptible to extreme cold than the green ones.

Dyckia reitzii

See these hooks on the tips of the leaves...they are not ever present
and the leaf gets normal when it matures.

What causes these "zebra" marks?
Maybe some extra cold nights can induce this markings to appear......

Dyckia reitzii the Abyss Queen!

Some damage caused by the extrteme ice.

There is an Aechmea there too.

No this is not gyrated!
This is on the wall of the abyss...

Can you see the abysm?

Notice the clear margins of the leaves...

The flower stalks are already emerging...

One of the most spectacular Dyckia blooms.

Most of the grass is already burned by the ice.

Ice formation occurs in starry windless nights during mid winter.

The mist freezes and the withe blanket of the frost cover everything and life stands still for the night.

The following morning usually is shinny and clear and the temperatures

rises promptly an melts the frosted mist.

Notice a rubra one can be seen there...

Dyckia reitzii, the abysm dweller....

Dyckia reitzii

My friends and Dyckias.....

Friends and Xerics lovers...
Steven and Phyllis.
They came all the way from Los Angeles to see plants in wilderness.

Wolf and Koka my Brazilian friends and plant lovers, I love them!

They know every tiny bit of The southern most part of Brazil. They are gauchos!

Phyllis was terrified, petrified when she saw the abyss...a deep precipice
Abissofobia is quite common and i myself feel that....Steven is saying do not worry I am here with you....
Dyckia reitzii is an abysm lover and a abysm dweller!

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