Stellenbosch University Botanical Garden, South Africa

Common name: Golden ball, Lemon ball, Yellow tower

Family: Cactaceae (Cactus)

Distribution: Brazil

IUCN Red list: Endangered

Life form: Succulent plant

Comments: Botanist Karl Moritz Schumann named it after Wilhelm Lenninghaus (1845-1918), 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.