Cactus Flowers (U.S. 2019) Forever Postage Stamps 100 pcs
Description20 stamps/page * 5 pages. You got 100 stamps in total. This issuance celebrates the beauty of cactus flowers with a booklet of 20 stamps. Each stamp depicts a photograph of the flower of one of these ten cacti: Opuntia engelmannii . Rebutia minuscula . Echinocereus dasyacanthus . Echinocereus poselgeri . Echinocereus coccineus . Pelecyphora aselliformis . Parodia microsperma . Echinocactus horizonthalonius . Thelocactus heterochromus and Parodia scopa. Within the booklet . each stamp design is featured twice. With new DNA studies . botanists sometimes reclassify plants. As of the printing of these stamps . the scientific names were accurate. Cacti also have common names . with some plants having several different names in popular use. Art director Ethel Kessler designed the stamps with existing photographs taken by John P. Schaefer.