Let \(N\ge 3\) . We are concerned with a Cauchy problem of the semilinear heat equation \(\begin{aligned} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \partial _tu-\Delta u=f(u), & x\in \mathbb {R}^N,\ t>0,\\ u(x,0)=u_0(x), & x\in \mathbb {R}^N, \end{array} \right. \end{aligned}\) where \(f(0)=0\) , f is nonnegative, increasing and convex, \(\log f(u)\) is convex for large \(u>0\) and some additional assumptions are assumed. We establish a positive radial singular stationary solution \(u^*\) such that \(u^*(x)\rightarrow \infty \) as \(|x|\rightarrow 0\) . Then, we prove the following: The problem has a nonnegative global-in-time solution if \(0\le u_0\le u^*\) and \(u_0\not \equiv u^*\) , while the problem has no nonnegative local-in-time solutions u such that \(u\ge u^*\) if \(u_0\ge u^*\) and \(u_0\not \equiv u^*\) .