Stamp: Flower Definitive (Falkland Islands 1968)

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Flower Definitive (Falkland Islands 1968)

09 October (Falkland Islands ) within release Flora goes into circulation Stamp Flower Definitive face value 3 Falkland Islands penny

Stamp Flower Definitive in catalogues
Stamp Number: Sn:FK 169

Stamp is square format.

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Stamp Flower Definitive in digits
Country: Falkland Islands
Date: 1968-10-09
Print: Photogravure
Perforation: 14
Emission: Definitive
Format: Stamp
Face Value: 3 Falkland Islands penny

Stamp Flower Definitive it reflects the thematic directions:

The Orchidaceae are a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants, with blooms that are often colourful and often fragrant, commonly known as the orchid family. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants. The Orchidaceae have about 28,000 currently accepted species, distributed in about 763 genera. The determination of which family is larger is still under debate, because verified data on the members of such enormous families are continually in flux. Regardless, the number of orchid species nearly equals the number of bony fishes and is more than twice the number of bird species, and about four times the number of mammal species. The family also encompasses about 6–11% of all seed plants. The largest genera are Bulbophyllum (2,000 species), Epidendrum (1,500 species), Dendrobium (1,400 species) and Pleurothallis (1,000 species). The family also includes Vanilla (the genus of the vanilla plant), Orchis (type genus), and many commonly cultivated plants such as Phalaenopsis and Cattleya. Moreover, since the introduction of tropical species into cultivation in the 19th century, horticulturists have produced more than 100,000 hybrids and cultivars.

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