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''Parodia leninghausii'' is a species of South American cactus commonly found as a houseplant. Common names include Lemon Ball, Golden Ball and Yellow Tower cactus. Botanist Karl Moritz Schumann named it after Wilhelm Lenninghaus (1845-1918),〔Note: His name was Lenninghaus, but the species is ''leninghausii'' without the double "n".〕 a native of North Rhine-Westphalia who, in the 1880s, left his hometown of Ennepetal and emigrated to Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he became Guillermo Lenninghaus, and collected cacti for the German grower Haage. ''P. leninghausii'' is native to the Rio Grande do Sul province in the south of Brazil. In those regions, winter nights are cold, with a light freeze. This cacti survive in these conditions because they are quite dry at that time. ''P. leninghausii'' shows cactus species nomadism; it was successively included in genus ''Pilocereus'' K. Schumann 1895, ''Malacocarpus'' (K.Schumann) Britton & Rose 1922, ''Notocactus'' (K.Schumann) A.Berger 1929, ''Eriocactus'' (K.Schumann) Backeberg 1942, and finally ended up in ''Parodia'' (K. Schumann) F.H.Brandt 1982. ==Description== Species is appreciated because of the long harmless golden spines. The young plants are globular, then columnar up to 1m tall, 12 cm diameter and about 30 ribs. Old plants cluster from the base. Flowers are yellow, 5 cm diameter, at the top of the plants, but only if adult (at least 20 cm tall) Sometimes, they present monstruous forms. There is a cultivar ''albispina'' with white spines. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Parodia leninghausii」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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