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Stamps featuring Native Philippine Orchids VI

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The Philippine Postal Corporation will issue a new denomination (P9) which pays the new registration fee for local mails in the new series of definitive stamps featuring some Philippine Native Orchids.

Trivias about Native Philippine Orchids VI

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Paphiopedilum urbanianum - This orchid is a semi-terrestrial orchid. The leaves are pale green, tessellated with dark green spots, up to 20 cm. long, and 4 cm. wide. The inflorescence is erect, up to about 25 cm. high, usually one or sometimes two-flowered. The dorsal sepal is up to about 35 mm. long, white with green stripes; the synsepatum is about 30 mm. long, white with green stripes; the petals are about 50 mm. long, undulate, whitish with pale green veins.

Stamps featuring Native Philippine Orchids V

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The Philippine Postal Corporation will issue a new series of definitive stamps featuring some Philippine Native Orchids.

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Trivias about Native Philippine Orchids V

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Epigeneium Iyonii (P17.00)
The pseudobulbs of Epigeneium Iyonii are 5 to 7 cm. long and 2.5 to 4 cm. wide, four-angled, bifoliate. The feathery leaves are oblong, 17 to 25 cm. long, and 3.5 to 5.5 cm. wide. The apex is unequally bilobed. The flower stalk is very long, arching and longer than the leaves. The flowers are large, white and purplish red. It is endemic in Luzon and Samar, found in Bataan, Kalinga-Apayao, Laguna and Rizal.

Thrixspermum subulatum (P21.00)
It has long and pendent shoots, often with side shoots. The leaves are thick, fleshy, shiny and leathery. At the short inflorescences, some flowers appear within a few weeks on many nodes. The flowers do not open completely. The three-lobed lip has a sac-like spur; the large pointed lateral lobes are erect or envelope the column. Found in Bontoc and Ilocos Norte.

Stamps featuring the Native Orchids

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ln view of the upcoming change in domestic airmail rate to P8, the Philippine Postal Corporation will issue some new denominations in the native orchids definitive series to meet operational needs.

Stamps featuring Native Philippine Orchids III

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The Philippine Postal Corporation will issue a set of four (4) high denominated definitives featuring some 19th century European old prints of indigenous Philippine orchids.

Stamps featuring Native Philippine Orchids IV

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The Philippine Postal Corporation will issue a set of 4 topical stamps and souvenir sheet featuring the following Native Philippine Orchids.

Trivias about the Native Orchids

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Liparis latifolia

The pseudobulbs of Lrparis latifolia are very close together, somewhat flattened, and up to 9 cm long. The leaves are leathery, acute, about 24 cm long and 5 cm wide The inflorescence is terminal, upright, slightly longer than the leaves, many flowered. The flowers are small in size, brick red, some with a greenish tint, sepals and petals pointing downward. The lip is recurved through '1 80", with a darker color, bilobed; its margin is erose. The pollinarium has four pollinia.

 

Stamps featuring Native Philippine Orchids II

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To cope with the expected increase in mail volume during the holidays, the Philippine Postal Corporation will issue more P6.00 local - rate stamps, with 4 new designs added to the current native orchids definitive series.

Trivias about Native Philippine Orchids I

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Phalaenopsis philippinensis has mottled leaves that are up to 35 cm long and 9 cm wide. The inflorescence grows up to 40 cm long, is erect to bent, mostly branched, many-flowered. The flowers, which reach 55 mm in diameter, are white. The lateral lobes of the lip are intensively yellow. The middle portion on the lip bears a callus between the lateral lobes; in the apical part it has two thread-like appendages. The pollinarium has two cleft pollinia connected to a stipe with a large viscidium.

Phalaenopsis fasciata is similar in form to P. amabilis but smaller. The leaves, which grow to 25 cm long, are yellowish green. The inflorescence is spreading, longer than the leaves. The flowers are shiny, wax-like, around 50 mm in diameter, and appear two or three at a time. The lip is three-lobed; the middle lobe has a central keel and few hairs on the apical part. The pollinarium has two cleft pollinia.