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[japetus]

Thomas, as this thread is growing steadily with new additions each day, I have the fear that it may become difficult to browse and search something in it, in a couple of weeks..
Maybe it would be a good idea to edit your first post by adding an index which will poiint to each post, either by country, year, or species...

[Braunbear]

japetus, on 17th March 2011 - 11:17 AM, said:

Thomas, as this thread is growing steadily with new additions each day, I have the fear that it may become difficult to browse and search something in it, in a couple of weeks..
Maybe it would be a good idea to edit your first post by adding an index which will poiint to each post, either by country, year, or species...

I like your idea of an index in the first article. I'll think about that.
If it is too fast for you with one stamp a day, I can also slow down my posting rate.  

PS: Can anyone split my first post into two posts?

Edited by Braunbear, 17 March 2011 - 13:38 PM.

[Braunbear]

I have edited my first post with an index for a better navigation throught my theme.

On 29 November 1985 celebrated the Kingdom of Bhutan in Asia, with a postage stamp series, the 200th birthday of the famous French-American ornithologist and artist J.J. Audubon (1785-1851). His artistic works were often used (as in the Ivory Coast) for stamps. Here is a bird series, issued with 8 values​​, one of the stamp shows the pitcher plant "Sarracenia purpurea".

The pitcher plant is native only in North America.

Edited by Braunbear, 18 March 2011 - 13:27 PM.

[Braunbear]

Saint Thomas (Danish St. Thomas) is an island of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, part of the unincorporated area outside of the United States. At Saint Thomas is also the capital of the area, Charlotte Amalie. From 1672 to 1917 Saint Thomas was the most important of the three island colonies in the former Danish West Indies, including St. Croix and St. John yet.

http://en.wikipedia...._Virgin_Islands

In 1989 there was a master butterfly sheet issued where a pitcher plant Nepenthes rafflesiana is shown.
Unfortunately, I found this block only in canceled form. If I succeed, I will also bring the post-fresh sheet into my collection.

Edited by Braunbear, 19 March 2011 - 13:52 PM.

[Braunbear]

Sierra Leone is a republic in West Africa, bordering Guinea, Liberia and the Atlantic. After a decade of civil war the country is now busy with reconstruction and refurbishment in recent history. The country is still one of the poorest countries in the world.

In 1991 came a sheet out of 16 stamps commemorating the botanical gardens in the world. There were three different sheets with botanical gardens. Here was presented the botanical garden in Munich (Germany). Including motives with carnivorous plants. In this sheet there are two CP's, the pitcher plant "Sarracenia flava" with flower and the tropical pitcher plant "Nepenthes x mixta", a cross (hybrid) between "Nepenthes northiana" and "Nepenthes maxima".

As pictures, I have shown here the complete issued sheet and the two corresponding motive stamps.

Issue reason: Botanical Gardens of the World
Issue date: 28 October 1991
Value: 60 LE (Leone)

[Braunbear]

France has so far issued only one stamp with a carnivorous plant motive. The stamp shows the sundew "Drosera rotundifolia". In 2010 a new stamp sheet with the image of this plant was issued. I'm trying to find that for my collection. ;)

Issue reason: France's nature - plants of the marshes
Issue date: 12 September 1992
Value: 3.00 Franc

[Braunbear]

Europe: Hungary
This stamp block was issued on 27 January 1993 by the Hungarian postal administration. The flora of Southeast Asia is shown here. Accordingly, with an unknown pitcher plant Nepenthes.

It is interesting that the image of the pitcher in the lower left area not on the stamp itself but is located outside the perforation. But on the stamp below the declared value we see a reddish flower stems of the pitcher plant.

[Braunbear]

Today we go to Thailand, an exotic country with a lot of carnivorous plants. Thailand issued the first stamps with carnivorous plant motives in 1994. This series consisted of 4 different stamps with 3 pieces of carnivorous plants. They existed as single stamps and a 4-block.

Shown are the three bladderworts:

- Utricularia delphinoides
- Utricularia minutissima
- Utricularia bifida

Issue reason: Day of the Year 1995
Issue date: 15 November 1994
Value: each 1 Baht
Stamp size: 23.5mm x 29mm
Block size: 84mm x 99mm

[Stefano]

Some very interesting stamps here - and I'm no stamp collector

I had no idea that there were so many different stamps with CPs on them!

[Braunbear]

On 10 August 1995 issued the Philippine Post two stamps in commemoration of the Year of the Environment. The two stamps had two value steps of 2 and 6 Philippine pesos in various se-tenant printing appeared.

On the right stamp of the se-tenant printing a pitcher plant Nepenthes is shown. It could be either a Nepenthes mirabilis or Nepenthes alata. Here again we see that the pitcher plants are very common in the tropics.

Edited by Braunbear, 25 March 2011 - 11:05 AM.

[Braunbear]

This is the first series of stamps which is exclusively dedicated to carnivorous plants. This set of 6 stamps from the East Asian country of Laos was issued on 24 August 1995. These stamps have the following motives:

- Tropical pitcher plant: Nepenthes villosa
- Venus flytrap: Dionaea muscipula
- Pitcher plant: Sarracenia flava
- Pitcher plant: Sarracenia purpurea
- Tropical pitcher plant: Nepenthes gracilis
- Tropical pitcher plant: Nepenthes Ampullaria

[Braunbear]

East Africa: Tanzania
This stamp from 1994 (some sources say 1995) by Tanzanian Post shows a Nepenthes hybrid. It seems, according to my research, is a horticultural cross between N. khasiana and N. gracilis. This plant is not found native in this East African country.

[Braunbear]

The postal administration of the UN (United Nations) in Geneva issued in 1996 a series of stamps in se-tenant printing about endangered plant species. In this stamp series, the cobra lily (Darlingtonia californica) has been shown there, which is located only in a small area around northern California (USA).

Issue reason: Endangered species (IV): Flora
Issue date: 14 March 1996
Value: 0.80 Fri

Images: se-tenant, Official First Day Cover (FDC), first-day postcard

[Braunbear]

The postal administration of the UN (United Nations) in New York issued on the same day (like in Geneva) also a stamp series in se-tenant printing about endangered plant species. In this stamp series, there is a Australian pitcher plant (Cephalotus follicularis) shown. The Australian pitcher plant is one of the rarest carnivorous plants and located only in a small area in southwestern Australia.

Issue reason: Endangered species (IV): Flora
Issue date: 14 March 1996
Value: 32 cents
Images: se-tenant, Official First Day Cover (FDC), first-day postcard,
At last: a very big First Day Cover (dimensions 18 cm x 26 cm) with all values ​​of the series.

[Braunbear]

Today, our journey goes through the country Malaysia. Under the name "Periuk Kera Malaysia" - Pitcher Plants of Malaysia, the Malaysian Post issued in 1996 a special stamp edition with different pitcher plants as motives.

These pitcher plants are:
- Nepenthes sanguinea
- Nepenthes macfarlanei
- Nepenthes rajah
- Nepenthes lowii

Issue reason: Pitcher Plants of Malaysia
Issue date: 06 April 1996
Value: 2 pairs of the 30 c and 50 c

Images: single stamps and Official First Day Cover (FDC), with special cancellation in shape of a pitcher plant.

[Braunbear]

Today I show you another stamp sheet from Malaysia, which do not fit at first sight in the collection area. But anyone who looks closely can see the right motive. ;)

This stamp sheet, with a series of six stamps, present the flora and fauna of Malaysia. This block was issued in 1996, on 2nd December. In the lower right corner you can see two pitchers of a tropical pitcher plant. I don't know, from which plant species the pitchers are.

Also, I have a nearly identical second stamp sheet, except this has little additional logo at the top to the stamp exhibition in Hong Kong in 1997.

[Braunbear]

This stamp from Austria was issued on 18 June 1999 and is dedicated to the flora and fauna of the Danube-Auen National Park. This stamp is part of the European CEPT - series. ( http://en.wikipedia....Administrations )

Among the various species of animals and plants, we can also see a few leaves of a Drosera (perhaps rotundifolia). Droseras
are native in this 93 square kilometres of wetlands in Austria.

Pictures: stamp and first day cover.

Edited by Braunbear, 06 April 2011 - 08:50 AM.

[Braunbear]

Today we go once again to Malaysia, a country with a lot of carnivorous pitcher plants. Malaysia is so far the country with the most issued stamps on this topic.

During the millennium celebrations in the year 1999-2000 issued the Malaysian post a special stamp-sheet about the event. The block has been the theme "Celebrate the Millennium" and it is printed with 10 different subjects, each 2 times in a row. Including in the first row the pitcher plant Nepenthes lowii is shown there. This Nepenthes grows very common in this country.

The stamp-sheet has a fabulous total size of 27.5 cm x 19.5 cm!

Issue event: "Celebrate the Millennium"
Issue date: 31 December 1999
Value: each 30 Sen

[Braunbear]

In addition to the Stamp Design of real photographs can also be a display of artistic motives look very attractive. As seen here from the African country of Somalia. Issued in 2000, this series contains a variety of carnivorous plants.

The minimum value of 200 Sh. So. (Somali Shilling) is a rather stylized Dionaea muscipula (native to the U.S.).
The second value of 400 Sh. shows a Drosophyllum lusitanicum (these species are native to Portugal, Spain and Morocco).
The third value of 3200 Sh. shows the presentation of Drosera bulbosa (native to Australia).

The associated block shows a selection of different carnivorous plants:
Tropical pitcher plant Nepenthes alata and villosa(?),
Venus Flytrap: Dionaea muscipula,
Sundew: Drosera (binata var multifida, macrantha(?), capensis),
and the portrait of a flower from a pitcher plant (perhaps Sarracenia flava ?).

Issue reason: Carnivourous Plants
Release Date: 2000 (specific day unknown)
Values: 200, 400, 3200, Block: 3000
Stamp designer: D. Vangelli

[Braunbear]

On 9 May 2000, the Slovenian post issued a stamp to commemorate the World Environment Day. On the stamp next to the post horn symbol we find two leaves of the sundew "Drosera anglica". In the picture here the stamp has a rare printed label which promote the "Stamp Show 2000" in London.

Edited by Braunbear, 13 April 2011 - 15:43 PM.