Orchids On Singapore Stamps & World Stamps

Sorry Leng,

you want me to remove my posting? No problem..

Thanks for your posting in Se-tenant..

Fifia

its ok fifia, there ARE some singapore flowers in there that look like orchids..

nice MC, carebear. Havent seen that before.

This is a definitive stamp issued in 2009 showing the Pigeon Orchid (Dendrobium crumenatum),
a wild orchid most commonly found in Malaysia & Singapore.
It's supposed to look like a flying pigeon from the sideview!

The stamp


The orchid

A Collector's Sheet showing the Pigeon Orchid was also issued.
The orchids on the stamp are in the form of actual embroidery flowers
(centre of the sheet). Hope this can be seen in the scan!

That Pigeon orchid sheet is really beautiful.

These are the 3 stamps from 1991 set



20c-Arachnopis Eric Holttum
30c-Cattleya Meadii
$1 -Calanthe vestita

This topic is now open to worldwide Orchids- so please show all your orchids here!

Algeria 1994 set of orchids, with photos of the actual orchids




Orchis simia or Monkey Orchid


Ophrys lutea


Ophrys apifera or Bee Orchid

Sure looks like a bee on the orchid!

Thanks for showing your orchid stamps Carebear.

Here are some orchids of Costa Rica, from a MS of 10 stamps issued in 2007:



There are over 1400 species of orchids in Costa Rica. Some of them are found in other parts of South & Central America as well.
The Cattleya dowiana (bottom right stamp) is found on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica & Panama.

British Honduras 1953 "mountain orchid" (SG 190) the first of many orchid stamps from Br Honduras & Belize.




The orchid species name is not on the stamp so I think it is a generic name as there are some 300 orchid species native to Belize. The national flower is the Black Orchid (Prosthechea cochleata).

Hi Leng, orchids from Thailand:



Cherluk Red, Lai Sirin, Suree Peach, Cheetah.

Issued 2nd June 2011

They are lovely, Scifi7. I think they are all Dendrobium orchids, my favourite is the Suree Peach.

These 2 orchid stamps are from 1985 Grenadines of St Vincent flowers set. The drawings are by wildlife artist & stamp designer Jennifer M Toombs.

The orchid on the 60c stamp, Laelia anceps, is endemic to Mexico, Guatemala & Honduras. The one on the 5c, Cypripedium calceolus, is a lady's-slipper orchid found in Europe, Asia & the Pacific.
Orchids are most profuse in tropical regions, but are actually found in most areas of the world including temperate & arctic regions.

South American orchids on Colombia stamps of 1950 issued to commemorate 75 Years of the UPU in 1949. (Michel 590/5)






Masdevallia orchids are found from Mexico to Brazil.









Cattleya orchids are found in areas from Costa Rica to tropical south America.




Odontoglossum orchids grow in cool to cold regions at high elevations from Central & west South America to Guyana, with most species around the northern Andes.




Miltonia are also found at higher elevations in South America.

Leng, here are orchids from Guatemala !!