Alberto Vojtěch Frič (, 8 September 1882

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

– 4 December 1944 Prague) was a famous Czech

botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phytologist is a scientist who specialises in this field. The term "botany" comes from the Ancient Greek wo ...

ethnographer Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

, writer and explorer. He undertook 8 voyages to America, discovered, described and catalogued many

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

cactus A cactus (, or less commonly, cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae, a family comprising about 127 genera with some 1750 known species of the order Caryophyllales. The word ''cactus'' derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek ...

. South American Indians called him ''Karaí Pukú'' (engl. Long Hunter); in Europe he became known as Cactus Hunter.

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Lophophora ''Lophophora'' () is a genus of spineless, button-like cacti. Its area range covers southern through northeastern and north-central Mexico to Querétaro in central Mexico. The species are extremely slow growing, sometimes taking up to thirty ye ...

fricii'' * ''Stenocereus fricii'' * ''Cleistocactus strausii var. fricii'' * '' Notocactus fricii'' synonymum ''Malacocarpus fricii'', ''Wigginsia fricii'' * ''

Airampoa ''Airampoa'' is a South American genus of the cactus family (Cactaceae). Species Species of the genus ''Airampoa'' according to Plants of the World Online Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic ...

'' * '' Chaffeyopuntia'' * '' Pseudotephrocactus'' * '' Salmiopuntia'' * ''

Subulatopuntia ''Opuntia'', commonly called prickly pear or pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family (biology), family Cactaceae. Prickly pears are also known as ''tuna'' (fruit), ''sabra'', ''nopal'' (paddle, plural ''nopales'') from t ...

'' * '' Weberiopuntia''

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