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

Apr 6, 2013

Dyckia hb Star Gazer - Bill Baker

Maybe a Dyckia hb Arizona twin brother.

Apr 5, 2013

Dyckia hb Liz Taylor

Dyckia hb Bela
It comes from the same cross as Dyckia Liz Taylor ....
Bela is the short in Portuguese for Izabel, my mother´s name and means beautiful.

Dyckia reitzii rubra

As I told you this plant is now getting ready to be red and we shall see it...
It gets redder when the days get shorter and colder.
It is a mountain dweller.
This is one of the most spectacular Dyckias of all.

Dyckia hb Brittle Star X Dyckia hb Arizona

..and the Sun was setting down in the west.

...to my friend in Texas.

Dyckia delicata seedling (wilderness caught seeds)

The early morning sun ....

Dyckia hb Tarzan, Bill Baker

...kissed by the early morning Autumn Sun.

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Apr 4, 2013

Dyckia hb Snaggle Tooth is trying to bloom.

I love it!

It was a gift from a very very dear friend.

We are so graceless, so small without friends.....my friends are my jewels, the best on me!

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana cv Star of Brazil

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana Star of Brazil

Star of Brazil
I made it and I am proud of it.
Two regional fosteriana varieties got together...
... to make the beauty.
It is about blooming and this makes me wonder...what about a marriage here using
Dyckia hb Brittle Star X Dyckia hb Arizona?
...just wondering.

This plant uses to divide its crown and assume a perpendicular habit.
Is this to avoid water from being trapped?

Dyckia hb Brittle Star X Dyckia hb Arizona

...in the mood for blooming. Can you see it?

Apr 3, 2013

Dyckia pulquinensis

Native to Pulquina, Santa Cruz in Bolivia this is a beauty no doubt!

This beauty is about blooming here.

This plant is a gift from friends in Germany.

A new look.....

Big and extra colorful a new face emerges from my dreams....
We are looking for a name here....what you think?

Today it is a rainy day and the plant is a young one, it must improve a lot...
I thinl of many many leaves and a plant to impose....
...an eye catcher to any garden.

...and here the proud parents:

Dyckia gloriosa (Daddy polen donator)

Dyckia encholirioides spinosissima ( mammy)

Apr 2, 2013

Dyckia reitzii rubra is getting some color....

Apr 1, 2013

Dyckia braunii

Dyckia pulquinensis, the Bolivian beauty.

My beautiful and charming Dyckia pulquinensis native to Pulquina, Bolivia.
It is about blooming by the very first time ...
..and I have something in mind...
...that would enrage the purist mind.
But preserving the species is not up on me.
This is a Botanical Garden job and a society one.
Hummmm.....
...of course some pure seeds must be well made....

Dyckia sp Small Black Dwarf from Santa Catarina Northeast Uphills.

...my hugs to South Africa here!

Dyckia macedoi

Macedoi is a small and charming Dyckia native to Minas Gerais.
Its leaves are thick and very succulent and the stripes are getting more conspicuous.
This one is still recovering and getting acquainted to its new surroundings.

This is a Dyckia reitzii seedling.
Spines are getting blach and the silver margins are getting conspicuous too.

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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