North Cyprus Stamps SG 2023 (d) Cyprus Endemic Plants - Full Sheets MINT

North Cyprus Stamps SG 2023

Cyprus Endemic Plants 

Full Sheets MINT

  Issue Date: 25 October 2023

Cyprus Endemics / KIBRIS ENDEMIKLERI 

Comprising of 2 separate stamps of different values, featuring:

Phlomis brevibracteata Turril / Kisa Cicek Yaprakli Ballik
Short-bracteate Jerusalem-sage.
Plant: erect, perennial shrub, up to 2m high with tetragonal shoots covered with short, stellate hairs.
Flowering: May – June.
Habitat: In garigue on dry limestone (altitude 50-925m).

Sedum eriocarpum subsp. Porphyreum (Kotschy)’t Hart / Mor Dam Korogu
Purple stonecrop.
Plant: small, annual, succulent herb, 3 – 6cm high, with hairless, reddish-green stems.
Flowering: March – May.
Habitat: rock crevices and rock clefts with soil, rocky and stony hillsides on limestone formations (altitude 0-600m).

Available on Cyprus Stamps website in the following format - sets of 2 stamps MINT, CTO/USED, Sets of 2 Full Sheets (8 stamps per sheet) – MINT, CTO/USED and also Post Office Official FDCs.

Name of Artist: Görel Korol Sönmezer