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Frailea

Frailea
Photo: Christer Johansson, CC BY-SA 2.5
Family
Cactaceae (Cactus family)
Grows as
Succulent

About

Frailea is a genus of globular to short cylindrical cacti native to South America.

Where it grows

Frailea species are cacti typically found in South America, with a distribution across northeastern Argentina, eastern Bolivia, Colombia, southern Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

Other Frailea plants

Frailea castanea · Frailea cataphracta · Frailea chiquitana · Frailea curvispina · Frailea diersiana · Frailea gracillima · Frailea mammifera · Frailea phaeodisca · Frailea pumila · Frailea pygmaea · Frailea schilinzkyana

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Frailea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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