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

Feb 26, 2013

So new, so beautiful this is a Dyckia hb Brittle Star F2
The contrasting dark and white are jumping out from the plant .
This is a young one and a gift from a dear friend.
I love my friends..some are so far away from me....so far away.

Feb 25, 2013

Dyckia gradeae

This is very fine Dyckia species native to Mato Grosso east border.

Feb 24, 2013

Dyckia delicata rubra X Dyckia sp magnifica seedlings

Young Dyckia hb Liz Taylor.

The green ones are Dyckia hb Richard Burton
Dyckia sp magnifica X Dyckia delicata rubra

Dyckia hb Liz Taylor. or...and the Oscar goes to.....

This is a young one as it is still to bloom ...
What a marvel!
Dyckia delicta rubra X Dyckia sp magnifica

Variegated Dyckia delicata rubra seedling

Variegated forms are getting common place and new ones are appearing more
frequently as more and more seeds are sown.
This is a young one and the variegation is already visible in spite of not any conspicuous.
Let us follow it ....

Dyckia!
Which one?
Native to Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina.
Any idea?
Please let me know: constantinog@terra.com.br

Feb 23, 2013

Dyckia estevesii

Prostrated new Dyckia species from Northwest Argentina

Feb 21, 2013

Dyckia hb Dancing Dervish

Gerfi, congratulations. Your article is fantastic.
Germany loving our tropical xerics, studying them and helping us all to know what surrounds us.
Ruhr University and its splendid Botanic Garden.
Danke mein freund.
Ein prosit!!!

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Dyckia braunii

Dyckia joanae-marcioii

Dyckia reitzii rubra
this specimen was shadowed in order to produce a good rootstock before getting the blasting Sun.
It is getting redder and redder every day.
Its normal look is deep red wine colored.

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My Dyckia hb Snaggletooth is about blooming....
A gift from my dear Howdy friend.

Feb 20, 2013

Dyckia hb fantasma

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