On February 11, 2025 the Ministry of Communications and Informatization of the Republic of Belarus will issue 4 stamps of the series “Carnivorous plants”.

Artist: Aliaksandr Mitsianin. Design: Maryna Krezo. Print process: offset. Colour: multicoloured. Paper: chalk-surfaced, gummed. Perforations: comb 131/2:133/4. Stamps size: 37х26 mm. Sheets composition: 6 (3х2) stamps. Sheets size: 132х74 mm. Face value of each stamp: M. Print quantity: 30.000 stamps each.

Printer: State Enterprise “Belarusian Printing House Publishing Co.”.

Common butterwort. Catalog number: 1609

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Round-leaved sundew. Catalog number: 1610

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Greater bladderwort. Catalog number: 1611

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Waterwheel plant. Catalog number: 1612

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Carnivorous plants (1609, 1610, 1611, 1612). Catalog number: 10001609

Face value M is equal to the air-mail tariff of a postcard abroad.

Carnivorous plants are able to catch and digest small animals, mainly insects, from whose bodies they obtain nitrogen and phosphorus (an additional source of nutrition), which allows these plants to grow where there are few of these elements.

There are about 300,000 species of flowering plants (сarnivorous are found only among them), of which over 600 species are сarnivorous.

There are 10 species of carnivorous plants growing in the wild in Belarus.

The stamps show common butterwort, round-leaved sundew, greater bladderwort, waterwheel plant.

 

 

Colour of the postmark – black.

Special postmark and FDC painted by A. Mitsianin, designed by M. Krezo.

A special cancellation on FDC will be carried out at the Main Post Office of Minsk on the stamps issuing day.

 

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