Where to get information about dyckia's

I only know of a few places to go for information about dyckia's.
Good infor is hard to come by.

The first place is Dyckia Brazil at http://dyckiabrazil.blogspot.com which is a blog by Constantino Gastaldi in Brazil who grows that seen like all dyckia sp found in Brazil and some hyb.

The second place is

Florida Council of Bromeliad Societies at

 http://fcbs.org/ 

Lots of photo's plus you can search the species database and the other database's they have.

and

Bromeliad Society International web-site at

http://bsi.org/

 You can look at the pictrues. One of the best thing on this site is the

Bromeliad Cultivar Register search. You need to be a BSI member to see the

recent back issues of the BSI Journal. These issues are available as Adobe Acrobat.
Also Bromeliad Binomial.
 

A word about Encholirium

I don't know alot about this group of plants and I only have the 4 you see in the photo's below plus one Bigeneric that is not mine. Most I've only had a year or so and the only one large enough to flower is Angelita (Dylerium / Dyckia Encholirium Angelita) and I'm not to sure what it is.

  

 Encholirium magalhaesii ↑

 Encholirium subsecundum ↑

 Encholirium horridum ↑

Dylerium / Dyckia 

Encholirium Angelita ↑ 

x Enchotia

 Encholirium horridum x Hechtia macdougallii

(not my plant) ↑

Dyckia  Chocolate ↑

The only Dyckia with a terminal blooming spike. I guess this plant had flowered before the same way (thanks Max) that I forgot about bach in Feb. 2009.

See link.
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/bromeliad/msg0219241919963.html?8

Encholirium horridum doesn't produce any offset so you need to grow it from seed to get more. Encholirium Angelita does produce offsets and so does my Dyckia Chocolate. I don't know if any of the other Encholirium are like Encholirium horridum or Encholirium Angelita. If anyone know let me know.

This is a list from

FCBS Bromeliad Species Online Database:

Encholirium bahianum L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
Encholirium belemii L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
Encholirium brachypodum L. B. Smith & R. W. Read
Encholirium bradeanum L.B. Smith
Encholirium carmineoviridiflorum Rauh
Encholirium crassiscapum Rauh
Encholirium densiflorum Ule
Encholirium erectiflorum L.B. Smith
Encholirium glaziovii Mez
Encholirium gracile L.B. Smith
Encholirium harleyi L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
Encholirium heloisae (L. B. Smith) Forzza & Wanderley
Encholirium hoehneanum L.B. Smith
Encholirium horridum L.B. Smith
Encholirium inerme Rauh
Encholirium irwinii L.B. Smith
Encholirium longiflorum Leme
Encholirium lutzii L.B. Smith
Encholirium luxor L.B. Smith & R. W. Read
Encholirium lymanianum Pereira & Martinelli
Encholirium magalhaesii L.B. Smith
Encholirium paraibae L.B.Smith & R.W. Read
Encholirium patens L.B. Smith
Encholirium pedicellatum (Mez) Rauh
Encholirium pernambucanum L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
Encholirium piresianum L.B. Smith & R.W. Read
Encholirium rupestre Ule
Encholirium sazimae Rauh
Encholirium scrutor (L. B. Smith) Rauh
Encholirium spectabile Martius ex Schultes f.
Encholirium subsecundum (Baker) Mez
Encholirium suzannae Rauh
Encholirium vogelii Rauh
Encholirium biflorum (Mez) Forzza
Encholirium reflexum Forzza & Wanderley
Encholirium eddie-estevesii Leme & Forzza
Encholirium maximum Forzza & Leme
Encholirium disjunctum Forzza
Encholirium ascendens Leme

Not all Encholirium have made it to this list as yet.
Like these two:


Encholirium ctenophyllum
Encholirium agavoides

Kew Royal Botanic Gardens has a list of only 23 species but as can see the list above is of 39.



Dyckia Chocolate

I have a Dyckia with a terminal blooming spike right now so does that make it a Encholirium?

That plant is Dyckia Chocolate.

I can't remember where I got this plant, I think it was Tropiflora.

3D photo's

It seeme like most new movies that are coming out are in 3D.

Sooooooooo

I thinking of adding some photo's in 3D. Anyone like to see dyckia's in 3D?

Who have 3D glasses?

Dyckia Silver Spurs

I'm off to e-bay to get 3D glasses.

UPDATE:

My 3Dglasses came today. I looked at the 3D photo's now my eyes hurt. But I paid money for the glasses and now I have to use them to get my money worth until my eyes fall out.  

Cyphostemma

Not all my plants are Dyckia's

 Cyphostemma cirrhosum ssp 

 It starts off with the leafs red but then they turn green.

Cyphostemma cirrhosum ssp 

 Cyphostemma cirrhosum ssp 

In a 9.5 inch pot.

Cyphostemma cirrhosum ssp 

This Cyphostemma juttae is growing in the ground in my yard for the last 5 or so years.

Cyphostemma juttae just starting to grow this summer.

x Enchotia ?

So what is x Enchotia?

I guess it is a Bigeneric that Ray at Tropiflora made.

Encholirium horridum x Hechtia macdougallii

Ray had put one in the show for display only.

I had seen this plant at Tropiflora and they have few of them but I have not seen any with offsets.

Orthophytum leprosum or Orthophytum lemei

I guess the only way to tell the difference between Orthophytum leprosum and Orthophytum lemei  is Orthophytum lemei has red bracts when it's in flower.

I got this Orthophytum at the rare plant auction with a note telling me that.

Now this plant I have had for some time now labeled as Orthophytum leprosum.

It does have the same color leafs but the leafs are not as fat. What could it be?

Maybe I need to water more.

My entries in the Show

I only entered  3 plants in the show this year.

 Dyckia goehringii F2

 Dyckia Mercury F2

Dyckia Arizona F2

All 3 plants won Award of Merit which is better then a 1st Place award. But not good that good to make to the Head Table

I only entered 3 because most of my plants are almost done flowering of have seeds coming along on them. Plants with seeds would have to be removed.

Hechtia tillandsioides female ?

Could this be a female Hechtia tillandsioides in flowers?

UPDATE: I guess this is not Hechtia tillandsioides but it might be Hechtia  lundelliorum.  

Hechtia's in flower

Hechtia's don't flower for me very offen but this year I have 2 in flower so far now.

 Hechtia epigyna

 Hechtia epigyna

 Hechtia lundelliorum

 Hechtia lundelliorum

Hechtia lundelliorum

UPDATE
The flowers opened today not the color I was looking for.

Dyckia dawsonii

I just potted up and divided Dyckia dawsonii as you can see in the photo's. I still have a few more to do.


This is one of those Dyckia that everyone who collects dyckia's should have. If you are going to do any hybridizing this would make a great plant to use if you want a thin leaf plant and it has nice color. Dyckia 'Brittle Star' is a hybrid of dawsonii X (fosteriana x platyphylla)

Dyckia Arizona f2

It seems to be a lot of Dyckia Arizona f2 hybrids around.

Most of which I like, most that I have seen look alike with dark leafs and white or almost white spines.
For me it would be hard to tell the difference between a lot of them. The real Dyckia Arizona would be hard to tell from the F3's. I like them all.
I don't have the real Dyckia Arizona but if you do I will trade you for one.
All photo's are of  Dyckia Arizona f2's

Encholirium subsecundum

Encholirium subsecundum or is it? I got this plant at Michaels Bromeliad. He said it was seed from the BSI seed fund labeled as Encholirium subsecundum. But whet it flowered it look like a dyckia with lateral flower spike. What ever it is I like the big waxey leafs.

Dorstenia gigas in 3D

Can you see it?

Dyckia niederleinii in flower

It may not be what the label reads but it got big fast. Just last year in was in a 6 inch pot whan I got it, moved to a 8 inch pot which it filled.

Strange flower kind of  oblong and with a flower stalk contorted a little bit.

Dyckia Silverback f2

Nice small color flowers for Dyckia Silverback f2