x Dyckcohnia Size:8-inch Pot Small tube of olive green

Small tube of olive green with flaring leaf tips

A cultivar of Dyckia dawsonii x delicata by Bryan Windham

Bright glossy red veneer with dark red bands

Fairly large at over 24in across

that gets darker with age and strong light

x Dyckcohnia Size:8-inch Pot Small tube of olive greenThis is a large growing plant. A bigeneric cross made here at Tropiflora is a cultivar of (Deuterocohnia brevispicata x Dyckia estevesii). The plant grows larger than either parent, to about four feet across and nearly three feet tall in a leafy rosette of arching red green leaves with red margins and substantial red spines. The leaves are tough and fairly stiff, three inches wide at the base, tapering to a fine point. In strong light the entire plant