Last year we offered ISI 2022-22, Dyckia choristaminea, a charming miniature species with proportionately large, yellow, sweetly perfumed flowers. Now we offer a cross of this and another Brazilian species. D. choristaminea is from Rio Grande do Sul in the southeast, while the slightly larger, slender-leaved D. dawsonii is from the central state of Goias. Each “pays its own way” by contributing characteristics shared in the hybrid. D. dawsonii contributes its more prominent, evenly spaced marginal teeth that triple the leaf width relative to the linear leaf blade, which also blushes reddish, though not as boldly as its elegant parent. D. choristaminea contributes its smaller stature and sweet fragrance, though the flowers of Dyckia ‘Dutch Treat’ are intermediate, paler orange than those of D. dawsonii and tubular with slightly flared petal tips. ‘Dutch Treat’, named here, is in limited circulation in bromeliad circles (under the hybrid formula name) since the cross was made several decades ago. We received a plant July 31, 1989, from the well-known bromeliad collector and nurseryman, Dutch Vandervort, whose name inspired the cultivar name with a punny twist. We offer divisions of HBG 63615, $10.
Published in the Cactus and Succulent Journal, Vol. 95 (2), Summer 2023