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Stamps featuring Native Philippine Orchids I

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Stamps featuring Native Philippine Orchids I

The Philippine Postal Corporation will issue some new denominations in the native orchids definitive series to meet operational needs.

Kind of Issue: Definitive
Denomination and Quantities: P 3.00 - 1,000,000
4.00 - 500,000
9.00 - 5,000,000
20.00 - 4,000,000
Date of Issue: June 11, 2004
Sheet Composition: 100 (10 x 10)
Size of Stamp: 22mm x 25mm
Perforation: 14 1/4
Printing Process: Litho-Offset ( 4 colors)
Paper: Imported Unwatermarked
Printer: APO Production Unit, Inc.
Layout Artist: Alfonso V. Divina
Design: Native Philippine Orchids (Photographs taken from the Book, 'Native Philippine Orchids" by Nans N. Fessel and Peter Baizer, Times Edition, Paciencia P. Milan, Program Director, VISCA-GTZ Applied Tropical Ecology Program and President, Leyte State University). The book is provided by Cesar Apolonio. 

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. Read more.

 

Stamps and Official Day Covers will be available starting June 11, 2004 at the Philatelic Service, Door 203, Liwasang Bonifacio, 1000 Manila and all Regional Offices of the Philippine Postal Corporation.

 

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