A beauty your eyes won´t forget.
On the background, you can see a Dyckia hb Dakota.
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Mar 25, 2020
Xantic Dyckia gastaldiana is a golden fountain
Native to my hometown in Santa Catarina uphills it is used to frosts and a occasional snow.
It lives up on Tres Picos moutain.
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Dyckia sp from Chapada dos Veadeiros, up North in Goiás
Some individuals can be luxury colored
They come from the heart of Brazil up North in Goiás
In the background you see Dyckia gastaldiana
Mar 4, 2020
A fine Dycki reitzii rubra hybrid
I like hybrids as they tell more than one can hear.
The mother plant here was a Dyckia reitzii rubra and the father plant was a fosteriana.
Both southern native plants here in Brazil and both are multi leaved plants.
See two distinct marks, the white underleaves, and the leaf tips.
The leaf tips denote this is a Dyckia reitzii descent. Margins are kind of lifted upwards near the point of the leaves.
This hybrid can stand mild frosts and as both parents, it is multiplied by head divisions only.
A young Dyckia monticola seedling, well variegated
All indicates this marvel will turn to be very colorful.
Variegated Dyckias are all guessing.
We all know too few about them.
Feb 13, 2020
Feb 12, 2020
Delicata X pectinata and Pectinata x delicata
Hybrids are those who do magic....
They are more beautiful, more adaptable to cultivation and they preserve the species where they belong to.
Dec 22, 2019
Oct 29, 2019
Encholirium seed pods, no flower is missed.
Above, this plant produced longer flower peduncles, the flower stalk is green colored.
Leaves bear more and bigger spines
In nature, these flowers are pollinated mainly by bats, here "batman"
did the work sucessfully and no flower is missed.
Bellow, shorter peduncles, darker Flower stalk.
Leaves bear fewer spines.
Two different looking Encholirium sp Serra do Cabral
Similar but not equal.
Under cultivation here in Santa Catarina, they take too much rain and
most of their scales are washed away
Oct 22, 2019
Oct 13, 2019
Encholirium sp Serra do Cabral - Minas Gerais
Petals are insignificant and the flowers are visited mainly by bats and small rodents.
We hardly see any insect here. Flores produce abundant nectar.
Hand pollinated flowers.
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Sep 29, 2019
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