Bird Beak

Bird Beak

Year
1969
Face Value
0.95
Mint Value
-
Used Value
-
Print Run
500000
Themes
Flora
Strelitzia reginae
From the Musaceae family, Strelitzia reginae is commonly called bird of paradise.
It has large, irregular flowers, very ornamental and brilliantly colored.
The flower stalk, barely extending beyond the leaves, ends with a large spathe containing 8 to 10 flowers.
The sepals are an orange-yellow color, the petals a beautiful ultramarine blue.
Plant, native to Cape Town, its production is important in Algeria.
Flowering takes place from October to June.