Stamp SN | D318 |
Stamp Name | Special 318 Water Plants Postage Stamps (1993) |
Stamp Cat Standard | Special Stamps |
Stamp Cat | Flowers |
Issue date | 1993-03-12 |
Suspersion date | |
Dimension of stamps(mm.) | |
Size of souvenir Sheet (mm.) | |
Printer | China Color Printing Co.Inc.,R.O.C. |
Drawer | |
Designer | Hung Hsin-fang |
Photographer | |
Engraver | |
Creative Director | |
Sheet composition | 6×5 |
Print color | |
Process | Deep etch offset |
Paper | Locally-made mat finished, watermarked stamp paper with gum |
Back | |
Perforation | 11 1/2 |
To introduce the gorgeous plants in Taiwan, this Directorate released a set of Water Plants Postage Stamps. The subjects were recommended by Jeng Yuan-chun, Head of Department of Botany, Taiwan Museum. The three plants taken as the motifs are: Water Lily( Nymphaea × hybrida), Taiwan Cow Lily( Nuphar Shimadai) and Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes)