US 2020 Crested Coralroot Orchid ; Coil 55c. Scott. 5441
Series: Wild Orchids (2020)
Stamp details: Crested Coralroot Orchid (Hexalectris spicata)
Issued date: 21-02-2020 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Face value: 55c.
(FOREVER º - No Face Value)
Emission: Definitive (Coil)
Format: Coil of 3,000 OR 10,000
First Day City: Coral Gables, Florida
Catalogue No:-
Scott (USA): 5441
Stanley Gibbons (UK): 6061
Michel (Germany): 5685
Unificato (Italy): 5844
Dimensions (height x width):
25mm x 22.25mm
Designers: Ethel Kessler (designer) ; Jim Fowler (photographer)
Printer: Banknote Corporation of America
Printing Method: Offset
Stamp Colors: Multicolored
Perforation: Serpentine Die Cut 10¾ Vertically
Gum type: Self-Adhesive
Themes: Flowers, Orchids, Plants
Total print: 6,500,000 (estimate)
Note: Face value US$0.55 on day of issue.
Stamp details: Crested Coralroot Orchid (Hexalectris spicata)
Issued date: 21-02-2020 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Face value: 55c.
(FOREVER º - No Face Value)
Emission: Definitive (Coil)
Format: Coil of 3,000 OR 10,000
First Day City: Coral Gables, Florida
Catalogue No:-
Scott (USA): 5441
Stanley Gibbons (UK): 6061
Michel (Germany): 5685
Unificato (Italy): 5844
Dimensions (height x width):
25mm x 22.25mm
Designers: Ethel Kessler (designer) ; Jim Fowler (photographer)
Printer: Banknote Corporation of America
Printing Method: Offset
Stamp Colors: Multicolored
Perforation: Serpentine Die Cut 10¾ Vertically
Gum type: Self-Adhesive
Themes: Flowers, Orchids, Plants
Total print: 6,500,000 (estimate)
Note: Face value US$0.55 on day of issue.
Description:- Hexalectris spicata, the spiked crested coralroot, is a terrestrial, myco-heterotrophic orchid lacking chlorophyll and subsisting entirely on nutrients obtained from mycorrhizal fungi in the soil. It is native to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Coahuila. It is closely related to H. arizonica and the two are sometimes considered varieties of the same species. Hexalectris spicata is endemic to the southern half of the United States from Arizona east to Florida and north to Maryland and the Ohio Valley.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexalectris_spicata
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexalectris_spicata