Mount Cozia is defined as an alpine area with a great variety of plants and flowers. Cozia National Park is also called the Mount of Flowers, due to the rich plant life that includes edelweiss and martagon lily. Romfilatelia has selected some of the rarest and most beautiful flowers of the area, presented in the images on postage stamps introduced under the thematic title “The Mountains’ Flowers, Mount Cozia”. Add these and other flower stamps to your topical collection!
Edelweiss enriches the postage stamp with the face value of Lei 1.40. This plant is often found in alpine and sub-alpine regions. It grows in steep and sunny places on a calcareous sublayer. It is declared a monument of nature and is a true treat that can be found in the Cozia, Maramures, Rarau, Rodnei, Bistritei etc. St. John’s wort, represented on the stamp with the face value of Lei 1.60, also known as perforate St John’s wort, is a perennial herbaceous plant that is part of the Hypericaceae family. St. John’s Wort blooms between July and August. It can be found throughout the country from spruce areas to alpine areas, in fields, shrubbery and meadows.
Dogtooth Violet is illustrated on the stamp with the face value of Lei 1.70 and is known in Romania as monk’s-plant, Cocoraland Cocorai, an indigenous plant original to Europe (both Central & South) as well as North America. The item with the face value of Lei 7 illustrates Oxlip. It is a heliophile herbaceous plant that can be found in ravines, meads, fields meadows, forest borders, well-illuminated shrubbery in areas ranging from hillsides towards alpine regions.
The stamp with the face value of Lei 8.50 shows Trumpet gentian. These flowers love sunny places, blooming in late-spring and summer (June-July), in meadows or clearings in wooded mountain forests. The item with the face value of Lei 11.50 presents Dittany, an herbaceous plant of the Rutaceae family. Also known as burning bush, gas plantand fraxinella, it can be found in shrubbery, at forest extremities and meadows, in Europe and Asia.
