#Mushrooms/Fungi on stamps
Digest: New Stamps of France, 2025, part 1
France unveils a new collection of stamps combining tradition and innovation. These miniature works reflect the cultural richness of the country, while being interesting items for philatelic collections. We'll start exploring the stamps that mark the year 2025.If you want to learn about French stamps of 2024, here are our last year digests: Digest: New Stamps of France, 2024, part 1 Digest:
Mushrooms as “Nature’s larder” in Polish culture
On 29 August this year the stamps from the series "Mushrooms in Polish forests" will be put into circulation. The items depict a great variety of mushrooms that are very popular and widespread in Poland. To Poles, the king of mushrooms is the borowik (Boletus edulis), commonly known in English as King Bolete. Its Polish name is derived from bor (coniferous forest) and aptly defines its preferred n
Falkland Islands: Fungi stamps 2014
30p False Chanterelle Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca This fungi belongs to the family Hygrophoropsidaceae in the order Boletales and was first described by the Austrian priest and naturalist Franz Xaver Freiherr Von Wulfen in 1781. The specific name aurantiaca is a reference to its orange colouring. Hygrophorus from the Greek Hygro meaning “moist” and Phorus to “bear” which could be loosely translated
Falkland Islands: Colour In Nature – 4 new stamps 2013
The naturalist Charles Darwin who made two short visits to the Falkland Islands in 1833 and 1834, wrote of the lack of colour in the Island's environment, describing it as drab and generally colourless: "…everywhere covered by a peaty soil and wiry grass, of a monotonous brown colour". He was of course making reference to the vast flat landscape of the southern parts of East Falkland where the sob
Edible Mushrooms on new stamps from Belarus
Belpochta issued 4 stamps from the series "Edible mushrooms". The stamps feature Lactarius torminosus, Hydnum repandum, Cantharellus cinereus and Rozites caperatus. Lactarius torminosus, commonly known as the woolly milkcap or the bearded milkcap, is a large agaric fungus. A common and widely distributed species, it is found in North Africa, northern Asia, Europe, and North America. It is valued f
Mushrooms in Polish Forests stamps
The Polish Post has issued a set of stamps dedicated to the mushrooms spread in Polish forests. The stamps feature: Dark honey mushroom (Armillaria ostoyae), Parasol mushroom (Macrolepiota procera), Morel mushroom (Morchella esculenta), Green-cracking Russula (Russula virescens), Death cap (Amanita phalloides), False morel (Gyromitra esculenta), False blusher (Amanita pantherina), Sulphur tuft (Hy
Edible Fungi in Greenland
Today POST Greenland issues a total of 5 new stamps that represent a wide range of aspects of Greenlandic culture, history, and nature. The last 3 stamps in the series show The Gypsy (DKK 5,00), Saffron Milk Cap (DKK 7,00) and Arctic Puffball (DKK 10,00). Traditionally, fungi were not part of Greenlandic meals, but in the last years, the interest in edible fungi rose in Greenland. The Gypsy and Sa
