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Christmas Island Botanical Postage Stamps


Date of issue: 30 June 1986
Designer: Ian Loe, England
Printer: Format International

Part of a series of four stamps on indigenous flowers

Plant: Hibiscus tiliaceus

Family: MALVACEAE

Sea Hibiscus, Green Cottonwood

A tree to about 15 m tall which grows on the shore terrace from very near the sea
to the base of the inland cliffs of Christmas Island.
It is a common pan-tropic species and its seeds will float for many weeks, suggesting
it is dispersed by water.

 


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