Wolverine Barrel

FEROCACTUS EMORYI
SUBSPECIES RECTISPINUS

Fero from Greek meaning "fierce"

The newest addition to the Death Valley Shack collection.
The barrel cactus is 8" wide with 4" spines and planted in a 10" pot.

Always cylindrical or barrel shaped and are usually among the largest cacti of the North American deserts. All members of the barrel family have prominent ribs and are fiercely armed with heavy spines. In some species, one or more central spines are curved like a fishhook, accounting for the common name Fishhook Barrel Cactus. The younger plants of the Emoryi cactus have colored spines, often a purple hue, and very few that are strongly crosshatched ridges. The very long central spines are only slightly flat and not hooked. Growing at an elevation of 1,500 to 3,500 feet in the Sonoran Desert of Pima and Yuma counties of Arizona, as well as down south into Mexico. Reaching a height of 8 feet and flowering in July and August with yellow, orange, or maroon flowers.