Alberto Vojtěch Frič

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Alberto Vojtěch Frič (September 8, 1882 PragueDecember 4, 1944 Prague) was a famous Czech botanist, ethnographer, writer and explorer. He undertook 8 voyages in America and discovered and catalogued many synonymy of the species of cactuses. Southamerican Indians call him Karaí Pukú (engl. Long Hunter), in Europe he was called Hunter of cactuses.

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