✨ Discovery of the day
Year: 1969
The Comet Orchid
This premium, high-value airmail issue features a detailed botanical study by P. Lambert of the Comet Orchid (Angraecum eburneum), highlighting two magnificent, reverse-oriented blossoms with their ivory-white, shield-shaped lips and long, downward-pointing nectar spurs. Historically, this denomination honors a magnificent icon of regional epiphytic flora; well-adapted to the humid, moss-covered tree trunks of old-growth coastal forests, this specialized orchid represents the fragile evolutionary networks shared between the Comoros and Madagascar. Released by the civil administration to process top-tier international parcel post and long-distance transcontinental mail routes, the stamp permanently archives the pristine forest ecology and protected natural heritage of the archipelago.
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Concorde and International Airmail Service (Paris-New York, 1977)
Comores Comoros 1977 Space travel weltraum Zodiac signs
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1975)
Viking Mars Mission
Space Shuttle Program
Pioneer Venus Mission
Voyager Mission to Uranus
Jupiter Lander Mission Concept
Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae)
Blackspotted Puffer (Arothron nigropunctatus)
Orange Clownfish (Amphiprion percula)
Raccoon Butterflyfish (Chaetodon lunula)
Red Lionfish (Pterois volitans)
Oriental Sweetlips (Plectorhinchus vittatus)
Swordfish (Xiphias gladius)
Ylang-Ylang (Cananga odorata)
Vanilla (Vanilla planifolia)
Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis)
Soursop (Annona muricata)
Cashew Tree (Anacardium occidentale)
Golden Trumpet Flower (Allamanda cathartica)
Orchid (Orchidaceae)
Banana Flower (Musa spp.)