This is my favorite dyckia to use as a pollen donor. I love really spiny plants and this one has hooks on it. This is Dyckia goehringii
Since I like spines, I put this one on all kinds of dyckias to see w hat an extra spiny form would look like. You saw what happened with Snaggletooth, but I also crossed it will fosteriana, silverback, and another spiny species, beateae. Goehringii has an interesting form as it gets older. The offsets come out on short stolens instead of real close to the base, so when you keep a nice one for yourself, you put it in a big pot and just let it clump and send out short runners all the way around the plant. Tom
Oh yes, I forgot, I just made some little seedlings still in the tray where I put pollen of this one on the black moon. Just think, a dark red dyckia that gets 40 inches across with big white spines or hooks? I think I got about 1200 of them, there HAS to be at least one that turns out looking what I'm hoping for.
