New, colorful and ...Dyckias...

[Constantino]

.....this means they won´t sucumb to blooming efforts. They just get better and better.
They are new and many xeric plant enthusiast do not even know them.
This plant here is a species from The Northern part of Rio Grande do Sul here South in Brazil.
It is used to mild frosts and also some snow.
So recently found it is a nameless Dyckia species.
Dyckias are the rare living creatures tha allow this: a walk into the absolutely brand new.





Dyckia fosteriana var. Marialva in Paraná
is also absolutely new and belongs to the Dyckia fosteriana Complex.
It is a gourgeous white plant.


Dyckia gloriosa is native to Santa Catarina also
South in Brazil.
Just a couple of years ago scientists belived the colorful and dazziling Dyckias species were only found in Central Brazil area.
These three species here shown are each one native to one of the three
Brazilian Southermost States: Rio Grande do Sul close to Uruguay, Santa Catarina and Paraná.
Each used to some cold, frosts and even some sonow once in a very while...

[William Ross]

Too bad many of us live in areas where dickyias won't survive outside a greenhouse. !!!!

Do you grow other plants or only dickyias? One would think you have a fetish.

Recently I've purchased a Euphorbia stenoclada, cereus forbesii spiralis (Thank you Lina!!!), Sansevieria kerkii v. kerkii superclone, S. pinguicula, Boophone haemanthoides, Haemanthus multiflorus, Notonia hebdingii (??) and seeds for Albuca spiralis and Callistemon viminalis.
Whew!

No Dyckias. Though, in moderation, I do find them attractive.

[Constantino]

Oh, my dear I have or have had many of these plants you mention and most probably I have more than most people would imagine I could but these are all commom place and already well known plants mostly easy to obtain and not a bit any challenging to get nor keep or cultivate.

Even those Socotra Island tree like succulents may be found offered by the specialized nursery. In USA is just a matter of money to get a big one of those. Isn´t it? There are places specialized on rare and exotic plants and rare ones are delivered to your doorstep in hours. So they are not any challenging plants but more a matter of richness and wealthness.

I do think when we want to really know a new and almost unknown genus of plant we have to dedicate our best to it. How many books do you know on Dyckias alone? Tell me one, a single one no matter the idiom it is written.

You are right Dyckias are alluring, no doubt. Your concept about fetish is a bit weird: Einstein had Physics as Fetish, Shakeaspeare should have a wonderfull one as any specialist in anything. Imagine Da Vinci ´s one, Gentry on Agaves?
If so I have a big gigantic one on the rare , dazziling and challenging Dyckias. Then you are positively right.

I do have some beautiful and rare Agaves and many African succulents, native and other cacti and many others but this all are a too commom world and even here the nurseries always have them. They would represent nothing worth to see as they were already seen in pristine condition a thousand times before. Some new or hard to get maybe difficult as those beautiful japanese agave cultivars would do good on showing. Some special Haworthias and so on but in fact nothing new.


Don´t disppair one day Dyckias will be also a common place everywhere as people are going to extremes to get them. Some places are so hard to keep plants people do it some floors undergroud.

But if you mean cold you are lucky as it is far more easier to heat a place than to get it cool. Here we can not even think to keep those dwarf blue pines. They dry and fry even in pictures here. Some beautiful Agaves as those that demands dry cool environment are particulary hard to find but they are also nothing new.

If one has enough money to keep a heated greenhouse running most of the year....

Do not give up, there is always something interesting and cute for everyone, every pocket, every brain, every skills, taste and every place.

If your winter is something to keep a white bear happy do not even try to keep a Tropical and that is far too obvious.
Imagine a polar bear in Copacabana or a blue hycyntine macaw up North Canada. It won´t work so easely.

Ah, some Agaves do not grow here as they need a cold dry place most of the year in order not to get sad to the point of dying. Those I do not keep of coursely.

Some Dyckias are used to some froze and also some occasional snow as it froozes here in South but all very milddly we do not have ice hanging down wires and trees. No , no ....

It is not a matter of heat alone as we must have light of good quality too for at least 8 hours daily in the worst of the winter.

Dyckias do allure me, intrigue me, challenge me, invite me to open the way as almost everything is left to be known in Dyckias.
How many brand new Agave species we found this year? I mean brand new species not cultivar nor varieties. Some regions way deep in Africa those parts recently evolved in civil wars are now offering something new and intriguing once in a while but even so rarely.

But I know enthusiasts Dyckia keepers of sucess in Berlin where temperature drops to 40 degrees Celsius below freezing, Moscow, Tokyo, Montreal, New York City, Boston, Philladelfia, Paris, Innsbruck in Austriac Tirol an so on. As you see these winters are cold enough for a polar bear and Dyckias are there for the enthusiasts go farer in their efforts to keep intriguing plants.

There is a Dyckia keeper way down into German Black Forest that is a reference in Dyckias. There in the the land of those little wood carved clocks. It can get cold in there! But Dyckias are safetly warmed up in heated greenhouses.

But go on show us some intriguing plants of yours. Something really new or hard to find. Something in pristine conditions I would like to see something new and exiting or.....some more fetiches...please.

My dear Certain Dyckias are more than attractive are alluring. Wait till you get lucky to see one of those live.

Thank to answer kindly and adding to the thread. I wanna see more of you and your plants as you must keep many. Show us the special ones. Maybe you do have something never seem before anywhere on this planet. Show us.
Show your best your very best. We are all willing to see it. Maybe some as alluring some will think it is a fetiche...go on show us, please.

[Tim Harvey]

One has to be mindful of the difference between rare and desireable. There are not many Dyckia sp. for sale in the US because nobody wants them, simple as that. They are sold, but only in small numbers because there is no big market for them. In contrast, there are quite a few recently discovered plants from Brasil that make there way here rapidly because people do want them.

I can think of a number of rare plants that people are just not interested in. They can be propagated but then it is difficult to recoup the expense involved in doing so, because they are not in demand.

T

[William Ross]

They all look the same to me.

[Constantino]

I guess you are so right you dig into the obvious.
Rare means not necesssarly beautiful nor desirable. Pandas are beautiful and rare meanwhile ....which one of us could afford to mantain one?
Here the discussion on the obvious would be endless.

No, the new discoveries here are not in USA, decidely not. But it is just a matter of time.

Dyckias are not bread and butter as those fairly known and common plants. They are just for the conosseurs. Those who prize the challenging of the beauty, the new and fascinating,the rare and exotics. In this respect they are not suit to anyone.

Look again at the pictures here, alluring aren´t they?

They are not trivial and it is quite soon to be so. It is gonna take a while a long one. Lack of information (no book on them, for instance) leads to this as well as many other things.

Also the impossibility of keeping a plant or a panda doesn´t make them undesirable.

Dyckia are to much new and dazzling and this is too obvious take a look again...
Are those seeds of the non desirable plants prospering with you?

Dyckias are at least a magnificent option for those who want to get out of the common obvious place. Don´t u think so?

Look at the successes those bettered tiny agaves the Japanese just introduced. Hummm tiny and beautiful and who doesn´t drool on those?
They are a new breeze on the xerics.

Options are great. Liberty is based on that!

Try to maintain those seedlings warmed and in less than a year they will start showing some beauty to you, Mark.

Cheers.

[Constantino]

This is so new it is unnamed and also undescribed.
Grows on granitic rocks on a very limited area way down South in Brazil.
Crowns grow to 40cm across.
Flowers are a myriad of tiny yellow ones on a half meter high very branched spike.
Takes temperatures down to -12 degrees centigratdes.

...and as an image worth a thousand words...
That is my response:


..or maybe this would better say it:


or maybe this would make myself clearer:


...or better understood:


...but if still in doubt:


or still not sure:


but if you are still breathing and not drown in your own drooling:


Now the only hope is praying enthusiastically and hopefully or moving to New Orleans to get a Master degree in Vodu as on line graduation is not available and some pratice is mandatory.

Cheers