US 2020 Crested Coral Root Orchid 55c. Scott. 5447


US 2020 Crested Coral Root Orchid 55c. Scott. 5447


Series: Wild Orchids (2020)

Stamp details: Crested Coral Root Orchid (Hexalectris spicata)

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

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

Emission: Definitive

Format: PSA Double-sided booklet of 20

First Day City: Coral Gables, Florida

Catalogue No:-
Scott (USA): 5447
Stanley Gibbons (UK): 6051
Michel (Germany): 5675BDo
Yvert et Tellier (France): 5296
Unificato (Italy): 5834

Dimensions (height x width):
30.25mm x 23.1mm

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

Printer: Banknote Corporation of America

Printing Method: Offset

Stamp Colors: Multicolored

Perforation: Serpentine Die Cut 11 x 10¾

Gum type: Self-Adhesive

Themes: Flowers, Orchids, Plants

Total print: 50,000,000 (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