The Wild Thunbergia (Thunbergia lancifolia) flowers at the commencement of the wet season in Rhodesia, usually November. It is very common, especially along the sandveld of the central watershed. There is great variation in the intensity of the colours. The saying ‘shades of blue’ springs to mind when seeing these flowers side by side on their separate bushes; some have flowers of deep ultramarine, and others of very pale sky-blue.
Details
- Subject: Thunbergia lancifolia
- Designer: Jeff Huntley
- Printer: Mardon Printers (Pvt.) Ltd., Salisbury, Rhodesia
- Process: Lithography
- Paper:
- 1st Printing – Chromo with brown gum
- 2nd Printing – White coated with white gum
- Watermark: None
- Perf: 14 (comb)
- Cylinders: 1A 1B
- Sheet: 5 x 10 (50 stamps)
- Quantity:
- 1st Printing – 3,900,000 (No.001-39,000)
- 2nd Printing – 3,200,000 (No.39,001-71,200)
- Reprints: 20 July 1977
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