US 2020 Crested Coralroot Orchid ; Coil 55c. Scott. 5441


US 2020 Crested Coralroot Orchid ; Coil 55c. Scott. 5441


Series: Wild Orchids (2020)

Stamp details: Crested Coralroot Orchid (Hexalectris spicata)

Issued date: 21-02-2020 (dd/mm/yyyy)

Face value: 55c.
(FOREVER º - No Face Value)

Emission: Definitive (Coil)

Format: Coil of 3,000 OR 10,000

First Day City: Coral Gables, Florida

Catalogue No:-
Scott (USA): 5441
Stanley Gibbons (UK): 6061
Michel (Germany): 5685
Unificato (Italy): 5844

Dimensions (height x width):
25mm x 22.25mm

Designers: Ethel Kessler (designer) ; Jim Fowler (photographer)

Printer: Banknote Corporation of America

Printing Method: Offset

Stamp Colors: Multicolored

Perforation: Serpentine Die Cut 10¾ Vertically

Gum type: Self-Adhesive

Themes: Flowers, Orchids, Plants

Total print: 6,500,000 (estimate)

Note: Face value US$0.55 on day of issue.

Description:- Hexalectris spicata, the spiked crested coralroot, is a terrestrial, myco-heterotrophic orchid lacking chlorophyll and subsisting entirely on nutrients obtained from mycorrhizal fungi in the soil. It is native to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Coahuila. It is closely related to H. arizonica and the two are sometimes considered varieties of the same species. Hexalectris spicata is endemic to the southern half of the United States from Arizona east to Florida and north to Maryland and the Ohio Valley.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexalectris_spicata