A set of four commemorative postage stamps on the flowers of Nepal : Lily of Nepal, Blue poppy, Giant Himalayan lily and Megacodon stylophorus :
Issued by Nepal
Issued on 2031 Aswin 30 corresponding to 16 Oct. 1974
Issued by :
His Majesty’s Government
Postal Services Dept.
Nepal Philatelic Bureau
Kathmandu
Designer : K. Karmacharya
Type : Stamps, Postal Used
Denomination : 30 Paisa
Colour : 4 Colour
Size : 3.2 x 4.4 cms.
Perforation : 13 x 13
Paper : Unwatermarked gummed Paper
Quantity : 1 million
Sheet : 50
Process : Litho offset
Printer : The Pakistan Security Printing Corporation Ltd. Karachi
About :
- This gorgeous lily flower was brought to light of botanical world by a British Botanist David Don who gave the proper name Lilium Nepalense indicating its origin from Nepal. The plant in nature is 30 cm. to a metre high growing usually on open slopes and margin of oak/laurel forest. It flowers during June to September. In full bloom the flower goes up to 20 cm. in diameter. The plant is wildly distributed all along the country ranging altitudinally from 1,400 to 3,000 metre m.s.l.
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