Souvenir sheet of ESTONIA 2004 - Spring flowers./291-17.03.04
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The
souvenir sheet consists of four stamps each featuring a spring flower growing
in Estonian woods. The violet (Viola) is a genus of flowering herbs of about
500 species. Fifteen species grow naturally in Estonia. The species pictured in
the stamp, the common dog-violet (Viola riviniana), can be seen flowering on
moist soils in woods and in wooded meadows from the middle of May. The anemone
(Anemone) is a genus of poisonous perennials from the family Ranunculacae and
it has nearly 150 species all growing in the northern hemisphere. The flowers
are simple, mostly with white or blue petals and grow singly at the tip of high
stem. The wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa) blossoms in Estonian woods in the
early spring. The hepatica (Hepatica) is a genus (family Ranunculaceae) of
perennials of about ten species from the family Ranunculacae and it has about
10 species in the temperate zone of Eurasia and North America. In Estonia the
mostly blue flowers of the common hepatica (Hepatica nobilis) open in the early
spring in decisious and mixed forests. The plant is poisonous before the growth
of new leaves and has been used in folk medicine in earlier times. The
globeflower (Trollius) is another genus of perennials from the family
Ranunculaceae; there are 25 species mainly growing in the Arctic and temperate
zones of the northern hemisphere. The common globeflower (Trollius europaeus)
pictured in the stamp mainly grows in the meadows and wooden meadows of
mainland Estonia. Globeflowers are poisonous plants.
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