Mar 3, 2010

Dyckia distachya Hassler

Dyckia distachya Hassler

This charming small plant lives on rocks close to white running waters in Santa Catarina
Its spines are very small and scarse.

Adult plants have their upper old leaves bend downward and this way lifting the plant from its substrate and helping it to cope with floods.
This plant may be submerged for weeks under meters of fast running waters.
Note the way this plant produces its runners cloning itself.
It is considered rare and under the risk of extintion in nature.
This is the very first Dyckia transfered to new places in nature as its home was flooded by a big dam.
This work was properly made by biologists and botanists.
The plant has proved to prosper in these new places  upstream alongside the  rocky riversides.


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