Does anyone know the parents of D. snaggletooth? I was looking at it compared to D. fragrans. The leaves are almost alike except for all those teeth. brb. goona take a pic to show. Could it be a parent?
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Hanna-Barbera cross??? :)

lol is that a scooby-do cartoon thingy? I think it is.

Hey Foxwichya !! That's great.

I didn't get that H.meziana, but H.argentea and I found that the plant even not look alike a pic show in FCBS, may be mine is quite young.

Your D.'Snaggle Tooth' look bigger than mine and I guess one of its parentage should be D.'Brittle Star' or 'Toothy', may be with that D. fragrans which I also got one,too.

My D.'Winter's Edge' came with 3 dividing heads and extra 4 small pups at the base. I guess so do you.

Stephania, Your winters edge must be a bit older cause mine is only a two headed one without any pups.

Foxwichya, do you have D.'Arizona' ?
I got one from Tropiflora, as I saw somewhere (can't remember!?)
might be in a thread here or Dave's Garden that the plant look neat.

In fact, I have some Dyckias that I can't find their name :-(
Most of them I got from one of my good friend who usually go to US.

For example, this guy is quite a big one, 1 foot plant with a rather broad 1-1.5 in. ,
purple tint on bronze leaves, and white prominent loose spines.
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This handsome Dyckia has a very dark colour glossy leaves with a silver spines,
the plant is about 6" in diameter.
It look like a pic, D.'Cherry Foster' of Yucca Do's catalog, but I'm not sure.
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This one is a tiny species Dyckia, only 3" in diameter with a silver-bronze leaves,
very fine, yet transparent spines.
My friend said the previous owner told him this was a wild collected plant.
I suspect this could be Dyckia minarum ?
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Thats cool Stephania. I like your purple tint and your cherry. I think i will get a few of the regular Dyckias since they are cheaper and will increase my odds for seed. Have any of your Dyckia set seed?

foxwichya,nice triple H.meziana.Leaves seem smooth,the one I have has a slightly fuzzy look to the older leaves.
'Snaggletooth' and 'Winters Edge'are good lookers too,and I've yet to obtain them.Maybe when Tropiflora's Cargo Rpt. comes out,they'll be listed.
I'd like to find a H.glabra too,so lets inform one another if any of us find a source.

Stephania,my D.argentea does'nt look like the photo on FCBS
either.That plant pictured must be up there in years,as the leaves look lengthy and very lax,where my young plant's leaves appear much the opposite. Your second pic does look like D.'Cherries Foster',and is one that I got this summer from YuccaDo.I believe YuccaDo is now shut down for the winter months.I just got these two from them last week.
Bob
Dyckia altissima
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Encholirium sp.'Diamantina,Brazil'
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Something different for the spiny collection.

Actually, I've only succeeded, a couple years, with my Dyckia marnier-lapostollei
which have been kept in my collection for many years.

And in other post, my X Dyckcohnia 'Conrad Morton' just recently set seed this month :-)

Bob, that YuccaDo's D.altissima look interesting , but I doubt it look like
another rare smaller size species, D. remotiflora.

Your Encholirium are cool, as we rarely find this genus in trade.
How about your Encho. sp 'Vau' seeds from Tarrington ?
My seedlings are doing well, but quite slow, or I'm too rash :P

Some of my D.marnier-lapostollei seed pods which set this year.
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And here Bob, a small clump of Hechtia argentea that I just got from Tropiflora
which I really can't imagine how do they became such a
silvery hundred-leaves spiny plant as in FCBS's pic !
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Hi All.
Yes,Stephania,its hard to visualize your H.argentea [and mine too]becoming like the fcbs plant.
I took a pic today of my H. argentea,D.rarifolia,and D.altissima together,and you can see that my H.agentea looks different than yours too,[bottom plant]and different than the fcbs pic as well.I'd almost doubt that yours is really H.argentea,except that it came from Tropiflora,and they should know,and have a correct ID.The spines on your plants are so far apart,where mine are much closer,as they are on the fcbs pic as well.I wonder if this species has great variation,depending on where it is grown.
The D.altissima in this photo[on left]is a little different looking than the photo posted previous,above.This one looks more like D.rariflora.
I wonder if the identifcation process along the way from wild collector,to grower, to seller,to hobby collector,sometimes goes astray.I know I sometimes lose tags,and have to figure it out for myself,but I keep receipts from my purchases,so that I can look up what I bought from who,and when.
None of my Encholirium seeds have sprouted as yet,but it may be due to so many cloudy days lately,and lack of sun and warmth,...I hope thats all it is...I want my Vau's !

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A photo of H.argentea [bottom] and two versions of H.podantha. On the left,H.aff.podantha,and the right,H.podantha...both a bit different in leaf and color.

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All I can say is that you guys need to come over here and take some of this stuff off my hands!

I'm in the process of dividing and repotting all my Orthophytums and Dyckias (and a few Hechtias)-- shamed into it by everybody's beautiful pictures-- I'd been neglecting them and they all had lots of brown tips and dead foliage thatch built up. They're still good though, the centers are fine, but the problem is that now I have more than I want or can sell. Locally they just don't move, and I can't ship.

Where are all the spiny collectors when you need them????

Im here in NC you can mail to meeee

oopps i didnt see the can't part. give them to someone who can get to post office for you.

It's not the just post office, it's the treating part-- everything has to be dipped in insecticide/fungicide first. No can do-- we don't use 'em anymore. :-(

Lisa,..nice dilemma...You got'em,can't ship 'em...we want'em,can't get'em. We need that gizmo they had on StarTrek...a 'transporter' was it? There..energize,ZAP!...Here. And in no time at all.
I really don't understand why you can't ship out to the Mainland,like we do here State to State. I get the need for carefulness to import,because of the pineapple industry,but why the hang up to ship out? We could use a little of paradise here .
Bob

Hi Bob, in my opinion, your H.argentea look closer to the FCBS's pic than mine !
By the way, your aff. H. podantha look alike my H.glomerata.

I agree that man's determinations could be distorted along their way,
but finding the truth is more interesting and yet exciting :-)

Hey Lisa....for me, Hawaii is among ..."100 places to go, before I die"
and there are something worth to die for overthere too :)

This unknown silver leaves Hectia came from Guy W. collection, the spines will turn red in winter here.

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Foxwicha: thanks for the photo link,it helped with a few species that I had names for but no pics. Still want to see yours tho

Stephania: Your H.glamorata and my H.aff podantha sure do look the same.
And I noticed that the fcbs photo of H.argentea looks a lot like the photo of H.epigyna on that site too.I'm really wondering if their H. argentea is in fact something else,as ours are sooo different.Or do we have something else?
If anyone has a photo of H.argentea,we'd like to see it here.

Bob