Golden Barrel Cactus (Echinocactus grusonii)

by albleroy Feb 4, 2003 7:26 PM

Image from "Jardin de cactus", Lanzarote

Central Mexico

This plant has been photographed in Tenerife

a flowering plant is beautyfull, flowers are quit small for such a large plant

this is a plantcluster in own collection

Here are some inviting stools to sit upon in the Huntington Gardens, Pasadena, California

Here is a unique lanscaping idea as seen on the roof of the Getty Museum, Los Angeles. The blue plant is Sedum ticoides and Agave americana variegata in the far background.

This cactus can also sucker profusely.

The Ruth Bancroft Garden, Walnut Creek, California October 2003.

This group is growing along the walk in the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, AZ, 2002.

This is a tighter shot of the barrel cactus growing along the walk of the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix. These cactus always impress me! I've had one here in dreary Illinois for about three years and it's all of about 2 inches in diameter!

Unlike many plants, golden barrels get more and more beautiful as they grow.

Private collection in Phoenix, AZ, zone 9b

At the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix, AZ, zone 9b.

Top of my Golden Barrel Cactus 7-04

4' Diam. 10" High.

Close up of top.

I know there are several of these pics, but doesn't it look like something at the bottom of the sea?

plant covered with suckers, southern CAlifornia

Momma and her 19 babies

Golden barrels can do well in a pot like this one. It grew 6" in 8 years. This one is 15" across.

I've owned him for about 6 years. Cactus had been in a wooden barrel. Today it was removed from barrel and moved to different place. Dirt has been removed from lower parts in spines. 6.5 ft in circumference!

Early April, Springtime, zone 9a/9b. In Phoenix, AZ

Echinocactus platyacanthus at Fort Worth Botanic Gardens.

Growing inside the botanical gardens at Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh, PA

The dried flower and fuzzy fruit & seeds, October, late summer, zone 9b

tall older plant, southern California

another old plant with 'offsets' in middle of body

showing new plantlets forming on sides of adult, southern California

Echinocactus grusonii (Golden Barrel Cactus)

All cuddly for the winter in zone 8B/9A. The Ruth Bancroft Garden, Walnut Creek, California.

In the winter, all bundled up. The Ruth Bancroft Garden, Walnut Creek, California.

U of M Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 3-08

U of M Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 3-08 OUCH!

The Botanical Garden of Helsinki University, GH, September, 2008.

Hello, Mister Bighead!

8-2008, Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, MI

Globular clusters at Huntington Gardens, San Marino, CA, February, 2009

another view of the Getty's Echinocactus collection, Los Angeles

Growing at Loveday Sth Aust This plant is easily 18" in Diameter.

Boyce Thompson Arboretum has several clusters like this. These were huge.

Lotusland, Santa Barbara, California

Many offsets on this one. 3-26-2011. Phoenix, AZ. Zone 9b. Mid Spring

Polygala virgata behind a stand of Echinocactus grusonii at the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, California.

Taken at The Cactus Garden in Balboa Park. (San Diego, California)

The Huntington Botanical Gardens

At Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, California.

Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Huntington Gardens, California

not sure how this one got knocked over, but shows how wimpy this huge plant's root supply is.

plant in back actually has a pseudo trunk... almost 5' tall over all- Huntington Gardens

Golden Barrel Cactus at Mitre 10 in Waihi, NZ

Golden Barrel Cactus in Melbourne Botanic Gardens, 23rd August 2014

Echinocactus grusonii in my collection

In Arizona at Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden and sustainable living homestead in the Arizona desert with a nursery. Photo courtesy of Jan Emming Copyright of Jan Emming.

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. Copyright Karl Gercens. Conservatory Horticulturist at Longwood Gardens. http://www.karlgercens.com/

In a private front garden at Waihi Beach, NZ

In situ, in Mexico. Photo courtesy of Kelly Griffin. Copyright of Kelly Griffin.

Few left growing in habitat. Above the reservoir of the Zimapan dam in Hidlago, Mexico. Photo courtesy of Kelly Griffin. Copyright of Kelly Griffin.

Huntington Botanic Gardens in San Marino, CA. Photo courtesy of Ken Blackford. Copyright Ken Blackford. San Diego, Ca. 1/2016

Koko Crater, Hawaii. Photo courtesy of Mark Delepine. Copyright Mark Delepine.

Photo courtesy of; copyright of Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden/sustainable living homestead in Arizona.

With rattlesnake. Photo courtesy of; copyright of Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden/sustainable living homestead in Arizona.

Photo courtesy of; copyright of Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden/sustainable living homestead in Arizona.

Huntington Botanic Garden. Photo courtesy of Ken Blackford. Copyright Ken Blackford. San Diego, Ca.

Mexico. Copyright of, courtesy of Jeremy Spath, of Spath Gardens, for landscape design and installation in Southern Ca. http://spathgardens.com/

Bhubing Palace, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Photo courtesy of Karl Gercens. Copyright Karl Gercens. Conservatory Horticulturist at Longwood Gardens. http://www.karlgercens.com

At night at the Huntington Botanic Gardens by Ken Blackford. Photo courtesy of Ken Blackford. Copyright Ken Blackford. San Diego, Ca.

Photo courtesy/copyright of Matthew Maggio. Curator of Succulents at Sherman Library and Gardens.Owner of Rain Shadow Designs.http://www.homeimprovementquotes.com/pros/rain-shadow-designs

University of Arizona Campus Arboretum. Photo courtesy of Karl Gercens. Copyright Karl Gercens. Conservatory Horticulturist at Longwood Gardens. http://www.karlgercens.com/

Photo courtesy of; copyright of Jan Emming of Destination:Forever Ranch and Gardens, a 40 acre desert botanical garden/sustainable living homestead in AZ.