Dyckia hb Liz Taylor

Liz Taylor has much to show as it is a young hybrid plant.

It is getting better and better looking with every passing day.

 

 

...something fit o take your breath away....

...blueish.

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Dyckia minarum

A quite dark one.

 

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A  small Dyckia sp from Mato Grosso

Notice the small spines and the cute small flower stalk.

 

 

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Dyckia sp from São João do Triunfo-PR

This pretty Dyckia was found amid an Araucaria forest Southeast in Paraná State.

It is still to be described and named.

 

 

 

Dyckia macedoi

A rubra form plant recently collected...

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Dyckia hb Big Brazil #2 by Bill Baker

 

Big, beautiful and rare.

This plant was given to me by my Cajun friend David who got it long ago.

His was killed by a terrible frost some years ago and I am finding out an opportunity to send him bach some.  
 

This plant is so richly scaled and frosted that the scales stick to your skin if you touch it.

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This is a spectacular white Dyckia sp marnier-lapostollei affinis

I have seeds!

 

Dyckia braunii getting in the mood for blooming...

Braunii produces very fragile  flower stalk with just a few flowers.

 

Dyckia goehringii X Dyckia fosteriana

This is an extraordinary beautiful hybrid Dyckia I made myself.

The goehringii and the fosteriana plants can  be both spotted here.

 

 

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Earth, wind and fire...as ancient as mankind.

Fire is burning from bellow and the pots are within this oven assuming their eternity...

I prefer the bell shaped ones as above but Dyckias love both shapes.

Some said mankind and pottery were born altogether....

Clay, air, water, fire.

Pottery fascinates me!

It breaths...it is alive!

Fire. as millions of years ago......here what we know as civilization 
was born close to a fire..... 

My pots are there, burning.... 

They will be bell shaped and Dyckias will love to live  on them.

 

The potter man Paulinho...

The lady in rose and sandals is a cousin of mine and one of the most 

wonderful creatures on Earth: Marly. She plays the piano, makes clay treasures with the shape of small houses, speaks English, Portuguese and German, cooks like nobody, travelled the world...and I love her.

Dyckia sp from the old leprosy are in Porto Alegre-RS

Every single detail is impressive here.

In nature its spines are huge and leave their impressions well marked on the leaves.

 The plant is ready to bloom by the very first time here in my garden.

 

 

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Dyckia reitzii

 

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Dyckia hb Toothy Wolfgang

This is simply marvelous and distinctive hybrid...

Its blooming reveals its "fosterianic" ancestral...

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Dyckia hb Liz Taylor and Dyckia hb Liz Diamond

Dyckia hb Liz Taylor was born on the day Liz died and resulted from 

Dyckia delicata rubra and Dyckia magnifica cross.

Amid all seedlings some very differently looking ones appeared...

I am positively sure these today green ones will be deeply red  once our summertime begin and the color will be true.
What about Dyckia hb Liz Diamond?

Dyckia hb Liz Taylor

Dyckia hb Liz Diamont

This seedling will be deep red if my guessing turns to be correct...

 

New pots will assure a pristine development to these two beauties.

Soon we shall see.

 

 

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Dyckia hb Raquel, getting better every day

The white is getting more and more evident each day. 

The plant has not bloomed.

 

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I made this hybrid.

Thin leaves edged by an even thinner red line and many small shinny red spines.

 

I need to improve my photographic skill in order to give you  the correct image 

of this beauty and also I must upgrade the camera quality.

these two colors fit quite well altogether.