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Dyckia marnier-lapostollei

Dyckia marnier-lapostollei
Dyckia marnier-lapostollei (our plant, 2023-11-02)

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Abbreviation Written “ML” in cross formulas.
In this collection Recorded as the species itself, as hybrids (hyb.), and in an intraspecific cross, ‘Babel’ × ‘super wide leaf’ (from @ditformadea).
In crosses A parent in original crosses such as (goehringii New Form × ‘T-Rex’) × ML, (‘Sky Walker’ × ML) × ‘Pink Thorns’, and sp. × ‘ML’. The registered cultivar ‘Warren’ by another breeder (BCR #2394, by Bill Baker) also has the formula marnier-lapostollei × ‘Brittle Star’.

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The leaves are covered overall in silvery-white trichomes, and in good light the plant reads as white. Broad leaves overlap in a rosette, their margins lined with white teeth. The colour is not in the leaf itself, but in the pale felt of hairs across its surface. It is one of the species that appears most often as a parent in our crosses, abbreviated "ML" in cross formulas.

The records of a veteran grower in Japan also preserve the species' older lines of introduction into the country: the Hirao clone, clonal descendants of the plant first imported into Japan by Mr Hirao of the Shabo-ten company in Zushi, and the T-clone, descendants of a wild-collected plant that arrived a few years later through a nursery in northern Saitama. The older introduced plants are said to have often been white, with coarse teeth.

In GBIF specimen records the distribution centres on Goiás and the Federal District, with a further body in Minas Gerais and a single outlier in Rio Grande do Sul (see “Species Distributions”).

white / silver

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One of the species that appears most often in the cross formulas here. The abbreviation “ML” stands for this species, and turns up throughout the breeding records. This page brings together both its own records and the records of the crosses it has parented.

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