Flame Lily (Gloriosa superba): Rhodesia’s national flower, often found near or on rocky kopjes in good humus soil, and visited by the migrating African Vagrant butterflies when it blooms in December. The Shona name of Kajongwe is particularly apt for, as the wind shakes the plant, so the bright red petals twitch like a rooster’s comb.
Details
- Subject: Gloriosa superba
- Designer: Jeff Huntley
- Printer: Mardon Printers (Pvt.) Ltd., Salisbury, Rhodesia
- Process: Lithography
- Paper: Chromo with brown gum
- Watermark: None
- Perf: 14 (comb)
- Cylinders: 1A 1B
- Sheet: 5 x 10 (50 stamps)
- Quantity: 4,471,000 (No.001-39,700)
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