Dyckia hb Maria Fogosa, a young hybrid plant I luv it.
Born from classics and better looking than them all.
Terminal florations are rare amid Dyckias, in fact extra rare.
Above and below the main plant now isolated again.
Bellow, two of the three heads of the original clump.
Brittle Star emits no lateral sprouts and its seeds won´t reproduce its looks.
The only way to duplicate it is by splitting heads.
Dices are tossed and fingers are crossed.
Bellow, we see one of the four heads I separated a year from now.
These are original clones and there is no other way to get it for this hybrid does not emit lateral sprouts. One must rely only on head divisions, splitting them apart and getting new plants.
Bellow a fourth head separated from the clump a year ago from now.
This one was separated from the clump a year back from now.
One can see some of the old leaves still down there.
They are fine source of water and foot for the plant.
Dyckia hb Brittle Star original clone, risks must be taken.
who live in California and was William Baker´s friend.
including the Famous Dyckia hb Brittle Star original Bill Baker´s clone.
The clone besides spectacular emits no sprouts and its seeds do not duplicate its looks.
The only possible way of duplicating this beauty is by head division.
Divide heads is always risky and fearful.
We deal with the old wood trunk, a portion supposed to stay untouched.
four headed old plant last year and it worked fine.
I show removed one already with roots down bellow here.
Brittle Star is gorgeous when solitary healthy young head.
to separate all the three left heads of the bunch.
to emerge from the trunk.
Here the three crowns are apart from each other.
Above the fouth crown I separated from the four head clump in 2015.
Toshiro Numajiri a photographer report for Brutus Magazine, a most important Japanese mag.
We spent some pleasant hours together here in my home and also in the bushes.
Dyckia brevifolia var. subidensis will appear in a prestigious Japanese magazine.
we both lived under the very same skies.
This 61yo swollen belyied guy you have already seen.
The area hold the most extensive soy bean plantations in the world.
Dyckia hb Brittle Star, a dreamy Californian one.