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

Aug 25, 2012

Dyckia hb Liz Taylor

Dyckia dawsonii

Dyckia dawsonii Bill Baker cultivar (or would it be the real thing?)

One thing it is true: This plant is gorgeous!

thanks to my Californian friends.

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Aug 24, 2012

Dyckia ibiramensis rubra...simply stunning.

Dyckia stolonifera

Notice the flower bracteas here...

Dyckia ibiramensis rubra, a rare show plant.

Dyckia hb Tante

Dyckia lindelvaldeae X Dyckia pectinata

Something to take any´s breath away!

Dyckia delicata in my garden...

Dyckia delicata , Tomba Bodes regional variety...

Dyckia sp from Lagoão-RS

Dyckia sp from São Marcos-RS

Imposing, poli-leafed, blue, magnificent and Dyckia!

Dyckia reitzii, the queen of the mountain

Dyckia hb Vampirete

Dyckia hb Vampirete is a toast to our humorist Chico Anísio.

Notice the white leave undersides.

Dyckia hb fosteriana fosteriana cv Star of Brazil

I made it!

A hybridisation with two regional varieties of Dyckia fosteriana

Aug 23, 2012

Dyckias amid Araucarias, our native pine trees.

These babies are thriving amid a Araucaria grove in Santa Catarina Uphills.

Notice the under leaves have a green endument... These pale green scales
are only found up North in Santa Catarina native to Dyckias.
I love this for it is beautiful and unusual.

From Santa Catarina Uphills....

Dyckia dawsonii Bill Baker´s clone ....

Isn´t it beautiful?

Dyckia goehringii...the others are willing to be.

Aug 22, 2012

Small, beautiful, rare and Dyckia!

Notice the initiating flower stalk...

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From Santa Catarina uphills.....

No need to worry with words....

Pinkish or rose?

Santa Catarina native Beauty...a Dyckia to remember

A tremendously beautiful Dyckia in Santa Catarina uphills,

two days ago....

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