Here are a few of my favorite landscape types Dyckias. Here is one that many people may have heard about, "Cherry Coke"
This is my most popular dyckia. I go through about 300-500 a year. They are the favorite of a few of the theme parks. One of the problems with cherry coke is that it gets nice and red in all day full sun, but if it gets shaded, like when the sun goes down behind some trees in the winter time, they will turn almost green, like with the group below.
Since this red plant is popular, I have searched the US for something even better. Here is something I found in California, "Black Gold" when this one looks it's worst in winter time it still looks like cherry coke when it looks its best in the middle of the summer time. A single head of BG on average will be 20% smaller than one on Cherry Coke. All of these plants have the same color flower, which is yellow.
The best new plant I found from a back yard grower here in Florida. The last one is Black Moon. This one is 25% larger than CC. I have had a single headed plant that measured 46 inches across. This one is close. You pretty much can't even see the 12 inch pot it is in.
I think these came from the same grex, but the owners of these plants didn't know enough about the plants to give me an answer. Both of these have black in their names because of they ate in all day fill sun, when though they are really dark red, they get real close to black. Tom
