Posts Tagged ‘flora’

Beauty of Orchids

Beauty of Orchids

Czech post issued a set of stamps Flower Growing – Beauty of Orchids. The stamps feature exotic orchids originating from foreign locations. This is the first time in the history of Czechoslovak and Czech design that this motif has been chosen for a stamp. The orchid family is a diverse and widespread family of flowering [...]

Ferns of Taiwan

Ferns of Taiwan

Taiwan Post will issue the second set of four stamps and a souvenir sheet after its first set of stamps on ferns on November 26, 2009, . The new set of stamps features “walking ferns.” 1. Polystichum lepidocaulon (NT$5): It has a short, erect stem and fasciculate fronds. Its laminas are lanceolate and simply pinnate, [...]

Indonesia 2012 International Stamp Exhibition – New Zealand

Indonesia 2012 Stamp Exhibition - New Zealand

To commemorate Indonesia 2012 International Stamp Exhibition, New Zealand Post issued the exhibition miniature sheet incorporating three stamps from the ‘2012 New Zealand Native Trees’ stamp issue. The stamps are set against a picturesque image of a hutukawa tree in Kaikoura in New Zealand’s South Island. Also featured in the design is the official Indonesia [...]

Gardens by the Bay – Singapore

Gardens by the Bay - Singapore

Singapore post issued a set of postage stamps featuring Gardens by the Bay. Gardens by the Bay – Three distinctive waterfront gardens, namely Bay South, Bay East and Bay Central across the mouth of the Singapore River, in the heart of Marina Bay will define Singapore as the world’s premier tropical garden city. Spanning 101 [...]

Wild Mushrooms of Taiwan – II

Chunghwa Post issued a second set of four stamps and a souvenir sheet featuring Four species of mushroom found at mid-altitudes. 1. Amanita rubrovolvata (NT$5): The mushroom has an orange to red cap (pileus). The mushroom’s central stem (stipe) is cream to pale orange-yellow in color. The stem has a ring (annulus) on its upper [...]

Underwater Life – Malaysia

Malaysia post issued a set of stamps and a souvenir sheet of underwater life featuring Thorny Seahorse, Robust Ghostpipefish, Green Sea Turtle, Leopard Moray Eel, MandarinFish, Blue Sea Star and Red-spotted Coral Crab. The seas and oceans around Malaysia are home to thousands of different species that live together. The huge variety of animals that [...]

Farming Australia

The dairy industry is one of our major rural industries, ranking behind only beef and wheat. While all states and territories have dairy industries, most production occurs in the more temperate south-east areas of the country, and includes milk, yoghurts and a wide variety of cheese types. The most common dairy cow breeds are the [...]

New Zealand Native Trees

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New Zealand’s isolation from the rest of the world has allowed its unique flora to evolve and flourish, resulting in the distinctive array of native trees present today. This high degree of endemism makes New Zealand’s native trees truly special, so much so that Conservation International has recognized New Zealand as a world biodiversity hotspot. [...]

Wetland Conservation – Island

Vigdis Finnbogadottir, the former President of Iceland, who is named the protector of Audlind Nature Fond, an instution working for the conservation of Icelands natural resources, proposed Wetland Conservation, a topic for september issue. February 1971 saw the signing of The Ramsar Convention, an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable utilisation of wetlands, named [...]

Endangered Species 2011

The United Nations Postal Administration (UNPA) will issue a set of 12 stamps depicting endangered species. These will be the nineteenth set of stamps in UNPA’s multi-year Endangered Species series. The series was launched on 3 March 1993 to highlight the need for the protection of endangered species throughout the world. This year the endangered [...]


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