Saturday, September 6, 2008
038 - Taiwan Fruits, Sugar-apple
Stamp Issue : 1991-08-10
Annona squamosa (also called Sugar-apple, or Sweetsop) is a species of Annona native to the tropical Americas. Its exact native range is unknown due to extensive cultivation, but thought to be in the Caribbean; the species was described from Jamaica.
There are also new varieties being developed in Taiwan. There is a pineapple sugar-apple, which is similar in sweetness but has a very different taste. Like the name suggests, it tastes like pineapple. The arrangement of seeds is in spaced rows, with the fruit's flesh filling most of the fruit and making grooves for the seeds, instead of the flesh only occurring around the seeds.
037 - Taiwan Fruits, Mango
Stamp Issue : 1991-08-10
Mangoes belong to the genus Mangifera, consisting of numerous species of tropical fruiting trees in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The mango is indigenous to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Cultivated in many tropical regions and distributed widely in the world, mango is one of the most popularly exploited fruits for food, juice, flavor, fragrance and color. Its leaves are ritually used as floral decorations at weddings and religious ceremonies.
036 - Taiwan Fruits, Grape
Stamp Issue : 1991-08-10
A grape is the non-climacteric fruit that grows on the perennial and deciduous woody vines of the genus Vitis. Grapes can be eaten raw or used for making jam, juice, jelly, vinegar, wine, grape seed extracts and grape seed oil.
035 - Taiwan Fruits, Strawberry
Stamp Issue : 1991-08-10
Strawberries are a common variety of strawberry cultivated worldwide. Like other species of Fragaria, it belongs to the Rosaceae. Technically it is not a fruit although it is known as an accessory fruit, in that the fleshy part is derived not from the plant's ovaries (achenes) but from the peg at the bottom of the bowl-shaped hypanthium that holds the ovaries.
Friday, September 5, 2008
034 - Cimei Island Lighthouse
Stamp Issue : 1991-05-20
Cimei Island Lighthouse (七美嶼燈塔) (Cimei Islet, Penghu County) 23°11′N 119°25′E / 23.183, 119.417
033 - Dongji Island Lighthouse
Stamp Issue : 1990-05-19
Dongji Island Lighthouse (東吉嶼燈塔) (Dongji Islet, Penghu County) 23°16′N 119°40′E / 23.267, 119.667
030 - Yuweng Island Lighthouse
Stamp Issue : 1989-08-16
Yuweng Island Lighthouse (漁翁島燈塔) (Yuweng Island, Penghu County) 23°34′N 119°28′E / 23.567, 119.467
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