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Cultivar
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:04 pm
by Vic
Hi all,
Here's the latest issue of Cultivar, some interesting stuff including Digitomyrtillocactus!!:
Re: Cultivar
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 8:02 am
by Mike
Thanks for the link Vic - there's some odd and interesting stuff there!
Mike
Re: Cultivar
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 7:21 pm
by Julie
Thanks for the link, Vic. Now I want to start stamp collecting!
Can you lick this one?
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 7:27 pm
by MikeT
Julie
How about starting with a South African stamp?
Mike T
Sheffield branch
Post Edited (11-02-06 19:31)
Re: Cultivar
Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:24 pm
by Julie
Oh!!! I looked for a EO stamp, but did not see one.
Well spotted, that man!
Re: Can you lick this one?
Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:34 pm
by Aloenut
There was a series of stamps issued by the SA Post Office that depicted succulents on them.
If memory serves me correct they were in circulation around 1990.
Re: Can you lick this one?
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:41 pm
by Phil Hocking
I took a trip to the local stamp shop today and came away with a small collection of the Republic of South Africa stamps. This is almost the full set - apparently there is one missing but I'm not sure which one. I shall have to track that one down now.
These are the plants in order from 1C to 5R
Huernia zebrina
Euphorbia symmetrica
Lithops dorotheae
Didymaotus lapidiformis
Vanheerdea divergens
Faucaria tigrina
Conophytum mundum
Gasteria armstrongii
Cheiridopsis peculiaris
Tavaresia barklyi
Dinteranthus wilmotianus
Frithia pulchra
Lapidaria magaretae
Dioscorea elephantipes
Trichocaulon cactiforme
Crassula columnaris
Anacampseros albissima
All by Hein Botha, 1988
Phil in Somerset
Re: Can you lick this one?
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:57 pm
by Phil Hocking
Seems it is the 7 cent one I need. I can only find a very small image of it so I am not sure what plant it is. One of the window plants anyway.
Phil
Re: Can you lick this one?
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:12 pm
by MikeT
I don't have the 1C or 21C stamps, but do have the others you show. (I don't have a 7C stamp either.) There is also a Stapelia grandiflora stamp without a monetary value, this is dated 1992; the 5 Rand stamp is 1990 & the others 1988.
Re: Cultivar
Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 8:37 pm
by Julie
Beautiful! Not only the symmetrica but Lithops and Pseudolithos too.
I need to start stamp collecting!
A hobby that does not take up much space.