This clustering cactus matures to columnar habit with grey green stems up to 10mm (4in) thick and covered in needle-like yellowish spines. It has up to 32-ribs with an angular woolly crown and the orange-red funnel shaped flowers appear in summer.

Hardiness zones 9 to 11

Parodia leninghausiiis naturally found in South America growing in southern Brazil in an open sunny position on well drained moderately fertile soils and tolerates drought or high temperatures, frost tender.

Golden Ball cactus is grown for its flowers and its rounded habit. It is planted in small rockeries or cactus gardens as a specimen and is grown in pots. It establishes from division in 2 to 4 years and is commonly cultivated.ID 1917

Parodia (pa-RÔ-dee-a) leninghausii(len-ing-HOWZ-ee-ee)

Cactaceae(kak-TAY-see-ee)