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

May 16, 2014

Dyckia delicata type and type rubra (and an invasive Sinningia.)

Dyckia delicata (normal type and the rubra one.)

Dyckia delicata-delicata and its beautiful visitor

Dyckia delicta-delicata

This beauty was made with two diferent regional delicata forms.

The result is a dreamy plant.

Dyckia rondonopolitana

Yes, species! It lives in nature close to the Mato Grosso city of Rondonópolis.

This plant was described in Brazil.

Red ones are found too.

May 15, 2014

Dyckia in wilderness, Campo Alegre- SC Brazil

What a clump!

Can you see the red ones amid the green ones?

Some Dyckia are much better looking when clumped.

I can hide myself behind a Dyckia clump.

This is a Dyckia monticola related species.

May 14, 2014

Dyckia reitzii rubra Fortaleza, the darkest of all reitzii

May 12, 2014

Dyckia pottiorum in Djenes´ hand

May 11, 2014

Dyckia hebdingii Arco-íris

Dyckia Nasty on a red background

Dyckia pottiorum, a small cute fanned one.

Cute is the word here.

This plant here is so small it fits inside your right hand.
See, it has bloomed and it is preparing a new one.

May 10, 2014

The spectacular Dyckia reitzii rubra

As an American friend said: a firework explosion.

Yes, my friend it really is!

May 9, 2014

The big blue one Dyckia from São Marcos-RS

First time ever in history seeds are available.

The plant presents many many blue leaves turning it into a living ball.

This is one of the rarest Dyckias of all.

It does enjoys some freshness. It gets snow and frosts several times each winter.

May 7, 2014

Dyckia Brittle Star X Dyckia goehringii

This seedling gets whiter every passing day.

Notice the yellowish goehringii spines begin to appear.

May 6, 2014

Dyckia Liz Taylor

May 5, 2014

Dyckia grandidentata X Dyckia goehringii

Grandidentata X Goehringii
This is an ultra rare cross.

This young seeding will improve its spines size.

It is just beginning to show.

May 4, 2014

Dyckia Nasty

Dyckia Nasty is for sure a hybrid Dyckia goehringii.

It is really nasty, see its spines.

Is this a Bill Baker´s one?

Dyckia Snow Storm

May 3, 2014

Dyckia goehringii X Brittle Star

What a promissing seedling!

Dyckia hebdingii Arco-Íris (Rainbown)

Dyckia hebdingii Arco-Íris

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May 1, 2014

Dyckia Toothy (Wolfgang)

Dyckia fosteriana-fosteriana Nels Christianson

I made this fosterian-fosteriana cross and here I embrace my friend Nels from Santa Monica California. a guy who loves Brazil up to the point of speaking portuguese as good as I do.

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