New Stamps from India ...Orchids

India Post issued a set of 6 stamps and  a miniature sheet featuring Orchids on 8 August 2016. The 6 stamps have been  issued   in sheets of 45 stamps each, a miniature sheet of 6 stamps, and 6 sheetlets of 16 stamps each.

 Source : Stamps of India

Courtesy - Philately Promoters Group - Kasinath R . 

Orchids are from the Orchidaceae Family. The Orchidaceae is 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.Orchids are easily distinguished from other plants as they have specific structural variations.

450th Birth Anniversary of William Shakespeare

 

Date of Issue : 23 April 2014

Croatian Post  has issued a commemorative postage stamp on 23 April 2014 in a sheet of 10 stamps, maximum card (MC), postmark and First Day Cover (FDC) featuring ‘Romeo Juliet’ to commemorate William Shakespeare’s 450th Birth Anniversary.

William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), the great English writer and the most performed worldwide dramatist whose work has been translated to all languages of the world. His work hasn’t just deeply reverberated in worldwide theatres, but also in other artistic fields such as music, paintings and film. It is assumed that he had written 34 dramas, 154 sonnets and a couple of songs.

His early work was written with exuberant language and lots of humor, focused on political problems or love stories in which he celebrates youth and freedom. Amongst them, the most famous drama is “Romeo and Juliet”, a love story about unhappy lovers from Verona. The beginning of Shakespeare’s mature time of artistic creation was the beginning of the 17th century through which he regenerated European and world literature. Particularly stands out the tragedy “Hamlet” which came along at the end of the Renaissance era, in which he points out the inability of man to exterminate evil.

Thence, “Othello”, “Antony and Cleopatra”, “Macbeth” and “King Lear”, work that reveals the beginning and end of human nature and fate. In his later artistic creation, so called dark comedies or problematic drama arise amongst which the most popular are “Troilus and Cressida” and “Measure for measure”. In these dramas prevails irony and loathing over human levity and villainy and compromise in social lives.

The latest Shakespeare drama brings readers a world filled with ghosts and unusual events, dramatic plots and conflicts are solved in a miraculous and fairy-tale manner, the characters are not realistic, but are more like characters from fairy-tales and folk stories. The end of Shakespeare’s artistic creation is variously graded. One says that the author has exhausted his creative energy, and others say that Shakespeare has greeted the end of his life in calm and forgiving manner and in a visional depiction of life as a dream.

New stamps on Orchids

Date of Issue : 11 April 2014

The colourfulness of spring has once again found its place on postage stamps of the Republic of Croatia. As it has recently issued a souvenir sheet with the motifs of nature on the occasion of the 125^th anniversary of the Botanical Garden in Zagreb, Croatian Post issued on   April, 11^th  new commemorative postage stamps from the long-time series Croatian Flora.  This year three postage stamps are adorned with the motifs of three endemic Croatian orchids. For their beauty, the orchids are often named the queens of spring and the spleen of spring is brought us on stamps by:

Mt. Dinara-orchid (stamp of nominal value of 2.80 HRK) belongs to the most numerous genus Ophrys in Croatian flora. It grows from the middle of May to the end of June on dry lawns, in shrubberies and bright groves. It is spread also in great number of populations

Istrian serapias (stamp of nominal value of 2.80 HRK) Istrian serapias blossoms in May and June on the meadows and in bushes in the south of Istria. By the number of species (about 80) and the density of populations the Istrian peninsula counts among the richest orchid habitats in Europe and the veritable paradise of this lovely flower is in the farthest south of Istria – the Cape Kamenjak.

Liburnian orchid (stamp of nominal value of 3.10 HRK) is an Illyric-Adriatic endemic plant spread on a very small area. It blossoms already in March in small number of habitats along the Croatian coastline, from Istria to Korčula.

Club News

Stamp exhibition on Indian Cinema

All the philatelists and friends are requested   to attend the function on occasion of Actor Sri Shivaram contribution to Kannada Cinema.   There will be a photo exhibition on actor Sri Shivaram and  small philately exhibition on Indian Cinema  on 26th & 27th April  2014 organished by Suchitra Film Society. Banashankari 2nd stage Bangalore .
For more details contact Suchitra film society Phone Number  080 26711785.

- Jagannath Mani, Bangalore

New stamps on Year of Horse

 

Serbian Post has issued a set of  two stamps  to commemorate the Lunar Chinese Horoscope. 2014 is the Year of the Horse.

An additional astrological factor that isn’t as universally recognized is the element put together with each year: either metal, wood, water, fire or earth. These distinguish the year even further, with 2014 known as the year of the wooden horse, or the green wooden horse, as wood is associated with greenery and nature.

The Chinese animal signs are a significant part of the new year, with this year ushering in the horse, an animal signifying unexpected adventure and surprising romance, according to astrologer Susan Levitt. These characteristics are the most pertinent to those born in the year of the horse: 1918, 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014.

Goodbye, year of the water snake, and hello, year of the wooden horse.

 

Stamps on Owls from Lithuania

On April 5th  a set of two stamps were issued on OWLS in Lithuania. The two stamps  feature Barn Owl and the Eurasian Pygmy Owl. A FDC and two Maxicards were also issued together with a booklet in limited edition of 5 000 pieces(booklet).

- Wolfgang Beyer,Vice Chairman of the German Philatelic Collector Group ARGE ZOOLOGIE and Mr.Berhnahrd Fels, Chairman of the German Philatelic Collector Group ARGE LITHUANIA.

New  stamps on Orchids

Dater of Issue : 14 January 2014

Australia Post issued  a set of four stamps featuring  Orchids. Known for their exquisite flowers, orchids are the largest family of flowering plants in the world, with more than 30,000 species identified. Distributed in most countries, they are prolific in tropical regions. Australia has around 1,300 orchid species, with 95 per cent of these not found anywhere else in the world.

Orchids are either terrestrial, having an underground root system, or epiphytic, where they grow on host trees for support. A subset of epiphytic orchids is the lithophytic orchid, which grows on exposed rocks.

Golden Rock Orchid Dockrillia striolata ssp. Chrysantha
Also called the Streaked Rock Orchid, this lithophytic species is found in south-eastern Australia. The subspecies chrysantha is endemic to Tasmania, and has fragrant, creamy yellow flowers. Tasmania has about 210 species of native orchids.

Bee Orchid Caladenia discoidea
This terrestrial orchid, also called the Dancing Spider Orchid, is endemic to Western Australia. The name means “club-bearing” and refers to the broad, flat, deeply fringed labellum

Orange Blossom Orchid Sarcochilus falcatus
The scent and shape of this orchid’s flowers are similar to orange blossoms. It is distributed throughout eastern Australia up to Cape York Peninsula.

Shirt Orchid Thelymitra campanulata
Also called the Bell Sun Orchid, this orchid is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. Two distinctive features have contributed to its common names: the small flowers often have a bell-shaped appearance, and the fine striping on petals and sepals.

-Dr Nikhil SU, Bangalore

For Plant Lovers…

 

Date of  of issue: 25 July 2012

Chunghwa Post  issued a  set of four stamps and a souvenir sheet. The new set of stamps features "walking ferns." The designs follow:

1. Polystichum lepidocaulon (NT＄5): It has a short, erect stem and fasciculate fronds. Its laminas are lanceolate and simply pinnate, with pinnae that are falcate. Some of the rachises are prolonged and viviparous at tips. This species of fern grows on slopes in the forest understory.

2. Bolbitis heteroclita (NT＄5): Its stem is short and procumbent. Its fronds are simply pinnate with dimorphic: the fertile laminas are thinner and erect, whereas the sterile laminas are more spreading. The pinna grows without a tooth in each sinus. The terminal pinnae are lanceolate, and some of them are elongated and droop downward. The tips of the pinna have adventitious buds. Either lithophytic or terrestrial, the species can be found in humus soil along streambeds in the understory of forests.

3. Adiantum malesianum (NT＄10): It has a short, erect stem and fasciculate fronds. Its laminas are linear to narrow lanceolate and simply pinnate. The rachis extends to be whip-shaped tendril and has adventitious bud at tip. The pinnae are fan, obliquely triangular or obliquely oblong shaped with a pair of basal pinnae half-circular or wide fan-shaped. The species grows on slopes or cliffs at the edge of forests.

4. Asplenium prolongatum (NT＄25): It has a short, erect stem and fasciculate fronds. Its laminas are narrow and lanceolate and deeply bipinnatifid. A portion of the rachises are prolonged and viviparous at tip. The ultimate pinnule is linear with a singular vein. It grows in shady cliffs or on the trunks of trees in the understory of forests.

Orchids from Papua New Guinea

 

Date of Issue : 2 July 2012

From the mountain forests of the highlands to the tropical jungles of the coast and lowlands, Papua New Guinea is home to an indescribable array of beautiful orchids. The country's rainforests provide such a vast and suitable home to these delicate flowers, that new species are still being regularly discovered.

This issue features orchids found in Rigo inland of the Central Province of Papua New Guinea.

STAMP SET
K1.20 - Dendrobium macrophyllum - Found in the coastal jungles of Java to the Philippines and on to Samoa in the Pacific Islands and Rigo inland, Central province of Papua New Guinea. is a species of genus Dendrobium. Grows in warm to hot temperatures with medium amounts of light and in a well drain mix of sphagnum moss or medium fir bark. Sepals are pale yellow and spotted on backside, petals are pale yellow, upper lip is striped with purple stripes, and lower lip is spotted with dark spots. Lip is pale yellow
K1.20 - Dendrobium williamsianum - A medium to giant sized, hot growing epiphyte on small trees in the hot dry savannahs of Rigo inland, Central Province of Papua and New Guinea. Goes without water for up to 6 months at a time but do get morning dew.
K6.00 - Dendrobium bracteosum pink - Found growing in the mangrove forest of Rigo inland, Central Province of Papua New Guinea and is an epiphyte of forest trees and mangroves in
rainforests often along rivers and coastlines. Sepals and petals are pink, lip is orange.
K8.00 - Phalaenopsis amabilis - Found on tree trunks hanging bogs in the rainforest of northern Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and New Britain. Grows in
warm conditions. Pot in medium fir bark and keep in partial shade.

 

SOUVENIR SHEET
K10.00 -Dendrobium spectabile - is a warm growing species native to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. The long canes produce masses of flowers that look like aliens from another world. The plant is easy to grow and flower if you follow the recommended cultural instructions.
SHEETLET
K1.20 - Dendrobium bracteosum white - Found growing in the mangrove forest of Rigo inland, Central Province of Papua New Guinea. Sepals and petals are white, lip is orange. A small to medium sized. Epiphyte of forest trees and mangroves in rainforests often along
rivers and coastlines.
K1.20 - Dendrobium bifalce - Found in coastal forest and in forested areas near water in Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, the Bismark Islands, along Laloki and Brown Rivers, Central Province of
Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Queensland Australia. Sepals and petals are yellow and spotted.
K6.00 - Dendrobium Strepsiceros - Found in the Moluccas and Kavieng, New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea. A miniature to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect, lower half is swollen and fusiform, loosely 6 to 10 flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers
K8.00 -Vanda Hindsii - Found in Queensland Australia and Rigo inland, Central Province of Papua and New Guinea in areas with a distinct dry season in winter and spring as a large sized,
hot to warm growing, epiphyte on tall trees near large rivers or as a lithophytw scrambling over rocky outcrops with very bright sun.