Orthophytum supthutii

If anyone has this plant to trade let me know. Have been looking for it a long time with any luck.

Orthophytum supthutii

xDYCKCOHNIA Bones Mahogany

xDyckcohnia Bones Mahogany

This is a rare Bigeneric

Seed Parent: Deuterocohnia brevispicata

Pollen Parent: Dyckia reitzii "Rubra"

Hybridizer: R. Lemieux 2001

I find this plant to be a slow grower and also slow to flower. I have had this plant for about 10 years or so and it only flowered once.

There is one other xDyckcohnia that I know of and it is

xDyckcohnia 'Conrad Morton'

Seed parent: Dyckia macedoi
Pollen parent: Deuterocohnia meziana

Hybridizer: Hutchinson, Paul 2002

Small Orthophytum's

Orthophytum vagans

Orthophytum 'Brittle Star'
Orthophytum conquistense

I don't know why but their is some thing I like about the small Orthophytum's. Some are clumping and some send out stolons. I have no idea how many small Orthophytum there are I only have about 7 or so.

Deuterocohnia

Their is about 20 different Deuterocohnia's they are:

Deuterocohnia brevifolia

Deuterocohnia brevispicata

Deuterocohnia chrysantha

Deuterocohnia digitata

Deuterocohnia glandulosa

Deuterocohnia haumanii

Deuterocohnia longipetala

Deuterocohnia lorentziana

Deuterocohnia lotteae

Deuterocohnia meziana var.

Deuterocohnia meziana carmineoviridiflora

Deuterocohnia recurvipetala

Deuterocohnia scapigera

Deuterocohnia strobilifera var. inermis

Deuterocohnia strobilifera

Deuterocohnia schreiteri

Deuterocohnia pedicellata

Deuterocohnia seramisiana

Deuterocohnia scapigera ssp. sanctae-crucis

Deuterocohnia gableana

Deuterocohnia flowers can be bright yellow or yellow to orange and red.

Some have the flowers on stems that can be 3 or 4 feet in height and some do not. The flowers come from the center of the plant kind of like Cryptanthus (if it does have flowers on stems the stems are small and I can't tell). The plants with flower on stems can flower the next year on the same stem. Unlike alot of bromeliad Deuterocohnia do not die after flowering.

Dyckia elisabethae

A small dyckia I have had for only a few months now and has not grown at all.

UPDATE

I did not think the name was correct so I ask Constantino from Dyckia Brazil blog what he though about this plant and this is what he said:

This is a Dyckia chorestaminea. The described type form is native to Porto Alegre now downtown. Porto Alegre is a huge 3 million people city. There are four distinct and separated important hills inside the city and each has Dyckias or had. Dyckia choristaminea and Dyckia remotiflora among others.

Dyckia choristaminea is found in sparsely scattered populations alongside the inland edges of the great Lagoa dos Patos Lagoon.

The plant of yours seems to be from the northernmost part and the northernmost habitat of Choristaminea. The more you go South the longer get the leaves. The more you go East the narrower get the leaves. The Northern you go the shortest get the chorestaminea leaves. Also they may be red and many shades of red.

See these pictures with just some of them.

Dyckia Elisabethae was described by Winkle a German Botanist and redescribed by T. Sthrel. You can easily find in the Net the German and Latin description with some introduction and finalization in English.

Elisabethae flower stick reaches 1,5 meters high. The plant crown is 40 to 50 cm across as the leaves are 20to30cm long. Also its leaves are 2,0cm wide.

Winter is coming

I live in Florida about 40 miles south of Tampa and only about 5 or 6 miles from the gulf of Mexico. This area is in USDA Hardiness Zone 9b

Not ever year will we have days with the temps in the 30's and if we do it may only last a few hours.

Last year I had 1 night were the temp was below 32 and did get some damage on only a few plants.

We have what we call a hard frost or a hard freeze only about every 5 years. In those years I will not only get damage but some plants will be lost.

Alot of plants can take temps in the 40's or even in the 30's if keep dry.

Only plants from the tropics do not like to be colder then 50 ( I bring the few I have in doors for the nite). Tropical rain forest plants for the most part, but all the plant I like can take the cold we get most years.

If it looks like we are going to get a hard freeze I cover up the plants with a frost cloth.

The only dyckia that does not like to be cold is Dyckia Chocolate (see photo), it get some marks on the leaves every winter (see photo).

The best part of living in Florida if your a plant nut like me is winter is only about 12 weeks. The bad thing about living in Florida is summer is sooo long and hot 90 plus for about 35 weeks.

We also get 50 - 60 inches of rain annually. When it rains we could get 1 or 2 inches at one time in the summer.

Orthophytum maracasense variegated

I have the variegated (bottem 2 photo's) and the non-variegated (top photo) form of this plant, but I started to grow the variegated form in a large 10 inch pot just to see if it will get as large as some will do if in a big pot. As you can see from the photo it will. The largest pot I use to grow them was a 6 inch pot but most of the time it was 4 or 5 inch pot.

I think most people grow there plants in to small of a pot which will slow down how large the plants will get. They should try to grow them in larger pot with more drainage material, I use one part peat and 3 parts peal-lite and sometimes I will add some volcanic rock if it is a big pot.

The non-variegated form is in a 6 inch pot, I might try to grow it in a larger pot next summer.