Cactaceae

Fire barrel cactus

Ferocactus gracilis H.E.Gates

Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Ferocactus

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Fire barrel cactus (Ferocactus gracilis) — FlowerPhoto: Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist

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Common names

By language (4)

arz: فيروكاكتوس جراسيليس
Chinese: 刈穗玉, 神仙玉
English: Fire barrel cactus
Swedish: Röd djävulstunga

Synonyms

Ferocactus gracilis var. gracilis
Ferocactus peninsulae subsp. viscainensis (H.E.Gates) F.Wolf & R.Wolf
Ferocactus peninsulae var. gracilis (H.E.Gates) G.Unger
Ferocactus peninsulae var. viscainensis (H.E.Gates) G.E.Linds.
Ferocactus viscainensis H.E.Gates

Flowers

In flower: April, July, October (from 51 flowering iNaturalist observations worldwide)

Photos

FlowerPhoto: Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
FlowerPhoto: Jose Luis Leon de la Luz, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
FlowerPhoto: Rosario Douglas, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
FlowerPhoto: Jose Luis Leon de la Luz, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
Photo: Carl Howard-Morton, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Jose Luis Leon de la Luz, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
Photo: Amada44, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Sula Vanderplank, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
Photo: Norbert Nagel, Mörfelden-Walldorf, Germany, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Aurélien Rovero, CC BY 4.0, from iNaturalist
Photo: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
Photo: Dornenwolf from Deutschland, CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.