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34c Venus Flytrap single
Object Details
- Description
- The Postal Service issued four 34-cent Carnivorous Plants commemorative stamps in Des Plaines, Illinois, on August 23, 2001. The stamps, designed and illustrated by Steve Buchanan of Winsted, Connecticut, went on sale nationwide August 24, 2001.
- The four carnivorous plants represented on these stamps are native, but not necessarily restricted, to North America. The Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is found in moist, sandy areas near the coast from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to central North Carolina. Found in the southeastern United States, the Sarracenia flava, also known as the trumpet or Yellow pitcher plant, grows up to four inches tall. The Darlingtonia california, also known as the cobra lily, is native to the West Coast. The English sundew (Drosero) is a small plant that uses its sticky leaves to trap insects and is found in mossy bogs across northern latitudes of the United States and along the West Coast as far south as California.
- Avery Dennison printed 100 million stamps in the gravure process.
- Reference:
- Postal Bulletin (June 28, 2001).
- mint
- Credit line
- Copyright United States Postal Service. All rights reserved.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- August 23, 2001
- Object number
- 2002.2007.360
- Type
- Postage Stamps
- Medium
- paper; ink (multicolored); self-adhesive / photogravure
- Place
- United States of America
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- National Postal Museum Collection
- Title
- Scott Catalogue USA 3528
- Topic
- Plants
- Contemporary (1990-present)
- U.S. Stamps
- Record ID
- npm_2002.2007.360
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