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Stamps featuring Native Philippine Orchids V

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Stamps featuring Native Philippine Orchids V
Stamps featuring Native Philippine Orchids V

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

Part I

Kind of Issue: Definitive
Denomination & Quantities: P 6.00 -16,000,000
P17.00 - 1,000,000
P21.00 - 1,000,000
Sheet Composition: 100(10x10)
Date of Issue: May 16, 2003
Printer: APO-NEDA
Design Coordinator: Anton DA Claro
Ces-ar Apolonio
Layout Artist: Alfonso Divina
Designs: Photographs were taken from the book "Native Philippine Orchids" by Hans H. Fessel and Peter Balzer. Paciencia P. Milan,
Program Director, VISCA-GTZ Applied Tropical Ecology Program and President, LSU

 

Part II

Kind of Issue: Definitive
Denomination & Quantities: P17.00 - 2,250,000
P21.00 - 2,250,000
Sheet Composition: 100(10x10)
Date of Issue: August 8, 2003
   
Denomination & Quantities: P 6.00 - 24,000,000
P 10.00 - 1,500,000
P 22.00 - 2,250,000
Sheet Composition: 100(10x10)
Date of Issue: September 15, 2003

 

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. Read more

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