When game animals wandered freely, their hooves often picked up the ‘seedbox’ of this ground creeper with its twin spikes designed for this purpose. The box, or pod, finally fell out of the hoof, sometimes a great distance away, thus widening the distribution of Devil Thorns (Dicerocaryum zanguebarium). Cattle fulfil this function now.
Details
- Subject: Dicerocaryum zanguebarium
- 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 – 2,590,000 (No.001-25,900)
- 2nd Printing – 2,630,000 (No.25,901-52,200)
- Reprints: 21 July 1976
Sheet Numbers (1st Printing)
Sheet Numbers (2nd Printing)
