Surprisingly, there is no registered hybrid of those two species, Stephania, so you could be the first!

Where are the lovely couple going on their honeymoon-- to a secluded corner of your garden? I usually don't bother marrying them first, but then my plants are pretty promiscuous..... ;-)

LOL...Lisa !
But I think she has an adulterer, OH.. may be two :)
Those extra lovers are Dyckia estevesii and the giant unknown Dyckia from Bill Baker, too.
This morning I've checked and found she become pregnant !

I'm trying very hard NOT to make jokes about lovers with giant Dyckias, but I just can't leave it alone....... ;-)

ROFLMAO!!!

That's my point...LOL ;-))

Guess, Who is dady ?

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I dunno ....who's on first....you have many nice plants and a lot of daddy's lol

ANY HINTS on the best time for pollinating these spp. ??
I have 3 D.marnier-lapostollei var. estevesii in flower and want to ensure some seed set .
These are plants I have grown from seed myself , lost records on a seized hard drive , but I think its taken about 6 years .

Hi aroideana, I found the typical Dyckia marnier-lapostollei is a kind of
self-sterile plant, so they need another plants for successful pollination.

In my collection, I noticed that after the petals's blooming,
the pollens will ready on the first to the second day,
mostly from 10.00 am to 16.00 pm as a yellow-dust appearance.
The stigma will ready for pollinating on the late of day 2 or 3.
In the case of crossing hybrid, I expose the stigma by cut off the petals and anthers
before they form dusty.

The pollination could be done many times between 10.00 till evening.

The first day flower was on the left, pollens were not ready,
while the lower right was the 2nd day flower with dusty pollens.
You may notice the best "Pollinator" the tiny black ants.
They crawled around between blooming plants.
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A good result, isn't it ?...(^_~)
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Nice going there Stephania, looks like lots of babies to come!
I have been waiting for my platyphylla to bloom, but looks like going to be a long wait!!

Hey...a new part-time job for Stephania...MatchMaker !!
Hey, Matchmaker...I need some seeds from that wedding !
Bob ^-*

Stephania , thank you very much for your speedy informative reply , very helpful . Michael

Hope nearly soon Patris (*_^)

I think I'm a kind of Unmatchmaker!!! such as Acanthostachys x Cryptanthus... :-P
And Bob, those unpredictable Dyckies baby are now only green little things in the food-box.

With my pleasure, Michael.