Christoph Friedrich Otto
Christoph Friedrich Otto was a German gardener and botanist.
He was born in Schneeberg, Saxony. From 1805 to 1843 he was inspector of the Botanical Garden in Berlin. Together with Albert Gottfried Dietrich, he edited the Allgemeinen Gartenzeitung from 1833 until his death in 1856 in Berlin.
The genus of plants Ottoa H.B.K. is named after him. As a taxonomist, he was the binomial authority/co-authority of many species, including numerous plants within the family Cactaceae.- Abbildung der fremden in Deutschland ausdauernden Holzarten, 1819–1830.
- Abbildungen auserlesener Gewächse des königlichen botanischen Gartens, 1820–1828 - Illustrations of plants from the royal botanical gardens.
- Abbildungen neuer und seltener Gewächse …, 1828–1831 - Illustrations of new and rare plants.
- Abbildung und Beschreibung blühender Cacteen, 1838–1850 - Illustrations and descriptions of blooming cacti.
- "Icones plantarum rariorum horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis" -, 1840–1844.
