Dyckia Brazil

Nov 9, 2016

Dyckia monticola var. arco-íris and I luv u baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFToiLtXro

Seeds from wilderness, truer.... impossible...

Dyckia tuberosa

Dyckia monticola, bellow.

Sweet dreams are made of this.....

View from Dyckia tuberosa mountain Northeast in Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Dyckia is all around...

A young centennial Dyckia hebdingii, a sight to be hold.

This must be respected, admired, understood, preserved...
She (not it!!!!) was there long before our grand parents were born.
The true Lady Rock!!!!

How many jaguars passed by her?
How many stars she saw falling down from the skies?
Like that song I love says:
" I hear babies crying, I watch them grow and they will learn much more than I will ever know."
What a wonderful world!

I stopped and mouth opened admired this marvel of the rocks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAnkhKHMLCk

The trunk is well hidden, well protected by the leftovers of thousands leaves.

Dyckia hebdingii and me.....

Nov 8, 2016

Here we shall follow a vist to the Dyckia hebdingii field

Yes, this was growing happily amid the pasture.
cattle keeps the grass shortcut and the cows relish on the slender juicy flower stalks.

Here no flower stalk grows to form seeds. Cattle eagerly feed on them

Clenilson Souza was there with Vilson Müeller and me.

It was November 08th,2016. Two days back from today.

Here you can see the grass covered rock.

Bellow?

Notice variations are clearly visible.

The green ones, the blue ones and the chalk white small one.

Two forms living close together!!!!!

Have you ever imagined something like this?

Compare sizes, I wear 7,5 " gloves.

On the bare rock? No, almost. There is moss and debris in there to form a fine substrate.

Super white ones!

They are not alone!!!!

A rosed beauty.

Sharing quarters.

Clenilson Souza and the paradisiac landscape.

A rosed seedling, a rare event.

Cacti and Dyckias, they love the very same environment.

Wow!!!!

Can you see some differences

Nov 5, 2016

Dyckia hb Chris Rogers by Bill Baker

Sensational is the least to be said here.

Dyckia hb Koka Wolff, a beauty I criated honoring a friend of mine

Soon I will be able to offer seed F1 from this marvel.

Nov 3, 2016

Isn´t it a promissing beauty?

Nov 2, 2016

Dyckia hb belissima and its red bloody spines

What a pretty cuttie small beauty! D. Dawsonii pink spines X D. fosteriana

I controlled crossed this with Dyckia fosteriana var. lapeana

Now seeds are available.

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