The orchid stampset was issued at the end of 2023, I made some maxicards by myself and dropped the pictorial postmark according to the habitat of that each type orchids.
Lady slipper is my favorite orchid.
Hài đài cuốn / Paphiopedilum appletonianum (Gower) Rolfe 1896
Found in China, southern Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia occuring in silcate soils, leaf mold and on mossy rocks below trees with deep shade in lowland evergreen forests and primary highland cloud forests at elevations of 700 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial or lithophytic or occasional humus epiphyte herb with 6 to 8, narrowly elliptic to oblong elliptic, subacute to obtuse at the tridenticulate apex, mottled pale and darker green leaves that blooms in the winter and spring with 1 or 2 flowers per, erect, terminal, to 8" to 1 1/2' [20 to 50 cm] long, purple-brown, shortly pubescent inflorescence with a green, lanceolate, acute, ciliate, much shorter than the ovary floral bract.
Hài Việt nam / Paphiopedilum vietnamense O. Gruss & Perner 1999
Found only in northern Vietnam as the most range restricted species in Vietnam with an area of less than 200 square miles and is a warm to cool growing lithophyte or rare terrestrial in seasonally wet, primary, evergreen, broadleafed forests on shady vertical limestone bluffs, cliffs and on tops of mountain ridges of northern and northwestern exposure at elevation of 350 to 550 meters often in mossy clumps or partially shaded rock crevices. This orchid has 3 to 5, distichous, coriaceous-leathery, ovate to oblong-elliptic, obtuse and unequally bilobed apically leaves that below are heavily violet spotted, and strongly keeled, and above with fine white to deep green tesselation. Most typical habitats are narrow shelves below overhanging bluffs and the orchid survives a 4 to 5 month dry period during the cooler winter. The erect, 1 to 2 flowered, 6" to 10" [15-25 cm] long, purple violet or purple brown with dense white or light brown haired inflorescence arising from a broadly ovate, acute, pilose, conduplicate floral bract occurs in the late winter and early spring.
Hài Trần Liên (Hài chân tím) / Paphiopedilum tranlienianum O.Gruss & H.Perner 1998
Found only in southeastern Yunnan province of China and northern Vietnam in primary, broad leaf, evergreen forests on highly eroded, limestone cliffs and mountains in narrow crevasses at elevations of 40 to 750 meters in an area with partial shade, a cool dry winter and a wet warm summerA small sized, warm growing lithophyte with 3 to 6 distichous, clear green, linear-ligulate, obtuse, unequally bilobulate, or minutely tridentate apically and sharply keeled beneath leaves that blooms in the fall in nature on a suberect to arcuate, 4" to 6 3/4" [10 to 18 cm] long, bright green, pubescent, single flowered inflorescence with a conduplicate, ovate, acute or obtuse, green spotted maroon, pubescent, half as long as the ovary floral bract.
Hài hồng / Paphiopedilum delenatii Guillaumin 1924
Found in northern Guangxi and southeastern Yunnan provinces of China and Vietnam in broadleaf, evergreen lowland forests or primary highland cloud forests on soils rich in silicates or acidic soils or mossy crevasses on eastern or southern facing granite or gneiss slopes above rivers and streams in partial shade at elevations of 750 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial and lithophytic species with 5 to 7, narrowly elliptic to oblong elliptic, distichous, light green and veined and mottled dark green, purple spotted beneath, obtuse and minutely unequally trilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late fall, winter [Most often December] to early spring bloomer with 1 or 2 [rarely 3] apical, fragrant lemon-honey scented flowers on an erect, 8 3/4" [22 cm] long, densely white hirsute, reddish inflorescence with pale green spotted with purple brown, ovate, conduplicate, abaxially hairy, shorter than the ovary floral bract.
This orchid species requires less watering from January through May and water heavy from June through December, but not kept damp, and even fertilizer throughout the year.
These stamps and these cards are designed by Mr. Phạm Quang Vinh.
