Stamp: Mycena (Rwanda 1980)

Mycena (Rwanda 1980)

21 July (Rwanda ) within release Mushrooms goes into circulation Stamp Mycena face value 100 Rwanda franc

Stamp Mycena in catalogues
Michel: Mi:RW 1058A
Stamp Number: Sn:RW 982
Yvert et Tellier: Yt:RW 948

Stamp is square format.

Also in the issue Mushrooms:

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Stamp Mycena in digits
Country: Rwanda
Date: 1980-07-21
Print: Photogravure
Size: 35 x 35
Perforation: line 13½
Emission: Commemorative
Format: Stamp
Face Value: 100 Rwanda franc

Stamp Mycena 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.

Stamp, Mycena, Rwanda,  , Mushrooms