Stamp: Women picking mushrooms (Zambia 1981)
Women picking mushrooms (Zambia 1981)
02 June (Zambia ) within release Cultural Heritage goes into circulation Stamp Women picking mushrooms face value 12 Zambian ngwee
| Stamp Women picking mushrooms in catalogues | |
|---|---|
| Michel: | Mi:ZM 254 |
Stamp is square format.
Also in the issue Cultural Heritage:
- Stamp - Thatching face value 10;
- Stamp - Mask Maker face value 1;
- Stamp - Blacksmith face value 2;
- Stamp - Pottery Making face value 5;
- Stamp - Straw-Basket Fishing face value 8;
- Stamp - Women picking mushrooms face value 12;
- Stamp - Mille grinding on a stone face value 18;
- Stamp - Royal Barge Paddler face value 28;
- Stamp - Tonga face value 35;
- Stamp - Cattle herding face value 42;
- Stamp - Women pounding maize face value 1;
Stamp Women picking mushrooms it reflects the thematic directions:
A mushroom (or toadstool) is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae, sing. lamella) on the underside of the cap. These gills produce microscopic spores that help the fungus spread across the ground or its occupant surface. "Mushroom" describes a variety of gilled fungi, with or without stems, and the term is used even more generally, to describe both the fleshy fruiting bodies of some Ascomycota and the woody or leathery fruiting bodies of some Basidiomycota, depending upon the context of the word. Forms deviating from the standard morphology usually have more specific names, such as "bolete", "puffball", "stinkhorn", and "morel", and gilled mushrooms themselves are often called "agarics" in reference to their similarity to Agaricus or their order Agaricales. By extension, the term "mushroom" can also designate the entire fungus when in culture; the thallus (called a mycelium) of species forming the fruiting bodies called mushrooms; or the species itself.
