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Ferocactus is a genus of large barrel-shaped cacti, mostly with large spines and small flowers. There are about 30 species included in the genus. There are about 30 species included in the genus. They are found in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
Ferocactus wislizeni, the fishhook barrel cactus, also called Arizona barrel cactus, candy barrel cactus, and Southwestern barrel cactus, is a species of flowering plant in the cactus family Cactaceae, native to northern Mexico and the southern United States. It is a ball-shaped cactus eventually growing to a cylindrical shape, with spiny ribs ...
Ferocactus gracilis is native to southern Sierra San Pedro Martir, south to Punta Prieta, and northern Baja California, Mexico, growing at elevations of 10 to 30 meters.. It thrives in rocky hillsides, outwash fans, silt flats, and gravelly plains, often alongside other desert plants like Mammillaria dioica, Cochemiea hutchisoniana, Echinocereus engelmannii, Pachycereus pringlei, Stenocereus ...
Ferocactus glaucescens is a solitary or branching cactus with spherical or cylindrical blue-green frosted shoots, growing up to 45 cm (18 in) in height and 60 cm (24 in) in diameter. The shoots have slightly depressed apices and 12 to 17 sharp-edged, non-tuberculated ribs with elongated areoles that are often connected.
Ferocactus cylindraceus is a species of barrel cactus which is known by several common names, including California barrel cactus, Desert barrel cactus, compass barrel cactus, and miner's compass. It was first described by George Engelmann in 1853.
Ferocactus viridescens is a solitary barrel cactus, typically spherical, oblate, or nearly cylindrical, reaching heights of 10-30(-45)cm and diameters of 10-20(-35)cm.It has bright green flesh arranged into several 13 to 34 blunt ribs covered in arrays of long spines.
Ferocactus tiburonensis is a solitary cactus, reaching up to 1 meter in height and 35 cm (14 in) in diameter. It has around 21 slightly tuberous ribs and grooved spines that are hard to distinguish between central and peripheral spines.
Ferocactus johnstonianus is a solitary, spherical to short cylindrical cactus that can grow over 1 meter tall and up to 35 cm (14 in) in diameter. It has 24 to 31 slightly humped ribs and 22 to 25 golden-yellow, awl-shaped spines that turn brown with age and reach up to 6 cm (2.4 in) long, without differentiating into central and radial spines.