Sometimes, you can think about how interesting it is to live in a country that is located in a tropical zone and, if for example, you decide to write a story about flowers and illustrate it, then, you just go to the meadows or into the forest, and take pictures of the flowers you need.
But, when the seasons change four times a year, you need to keep up with this fast-paced race and, not always, you can manage to complete your plan.
Today, I would like to complete my story about a postage stamp from the Plants of Russian Steppes series of postage stamps. released in the USSR in 1986. which depicts the flower Bush Clematis (Clematis integrifolia), own photographs of this plant, but not destined.
It is important to be at the right time in the right place, but we have winter now and all the plants are hidden under a layer of snow and the maximum that I could find is the dried stem of this flower.
It's good that there is a postage stamp that will show. what does this, I would say, not a very popular flower look like.
Very rarely, I have seen them on some lawns.
Looking at the image on a postage stamp, one might get the impression that this is a very short flower, but the groups of these flowers that I saw reached about one meter in height.
Information about this postage stamp:
Country: USSR.
Subject: # Flora, # Flowers, # Plants, # USSR.
Series: Plants of Russian Steppes.
Name: Bush Clematis (Clematis integrifolia).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 15 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 5576.
Episode release date: January 15, 1986.
Perforation: comb 12¼ х 12.
Postage stamp size: 28 x 40 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 4,200,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.17 - $ 0.37.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.02 - $ 0.11.
Photo: original from @barski collection.
To be continued!
Author @barski
