Golden barrel cactus
Kroenleinia grusonii (Hildm.) Lodé
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 99 cm
- wide
- 60 cm
Cactaceae
Formerly Echinocactus corynacanthus, Echinocactus galeottii, Echinocactus grusonii, Echinocereus grusonii, and 1 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Succulent subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico (Zacatecas to San Luis Potosí)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 99 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 41 cm to 79 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Asiento de suegra, barril de oro, barril dorado
- Chinese
- 金鯱, 金琥仙人球, 金琥
- root
- Huitznahuatl
- Czech
- echinokaktus Grusonův
- German
- Goldkugelkaktus, Schwiegermutterstuhl
- Japanese
- キンシャチ
- Italian
- Cuscino della suocera, Grusone
- Lithuanian
- Geltondyglis ežiakaktusis
- French
- Cactus tonneau d'or, Coussin de belle-mère
- Russian
- Эхинокактус Грузона
- Thai
- ถังทอง
- Chinese (China)
- 金琥, 金琥仙人球
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Kroenleinia grusonii (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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