Animals-plants Stamps 88

The central stamp’s design is described as an existing photograph by Erika Kirkpatrick of the echeveria, a succulent native to the Americas often kept as an ornamental plant in the United States. T...

Centuries ago, pagans carried evergreens into their homes during Winter festivals to represent their idols. Apples and other fruit were placed on branches as offerings to the tree. Some historians ...

This stamp features a digital painting of the Common Buckeye butterfly (Junonia coenia) by renowned wildlife illustrator Steve Buchanan of Winsted, Connecticut. The Common Buckeye is named for the ...

The subject matter of children’s literature covers the people, objects, toys, animals, and fantasy creatures that live in a child’s real and imaginary world. The 2006 “Favorite Children’s Book Anim...

This pane of 20 stamps consists of four different stamp designs featuring photographs of bats found in the continental United States: the red bat, the pallid bat, the spotted bat, and the leaf-nose...

The stamps showcase a gray-green Kemp’s ridley (Doug Perrine, photographer); a black and white leatherback (Rowan Byrne, photographer); an olive ridley (Solvin Zankl, photographer); a green sea tur...

The stamp features a colorful, three-dimensional mask depicting a dragon. Created out of paper, then cut, scored, and folded into shape, the mask is a contemporary take on the long tradition of pap...

With their large trumpet-shaped blossoms and distinctive sweet smell, angel’s trumpets are a summer favorite. To create the image, photographer Harold Davis backlit the flowers on a light box and c...

The stamp features a colorful three-dimensional mask depicting a snake. Calling to mind the elaborately decorated masks used in the dragon or lion dances, often performed during Lunar New Year para...

The stamps showcase 10 designs, including a fox, owl, deer, seal, rabbit, raccoon, bear, skunk, bobcat and chipmunk — each rendered with clean lines, rich textures, and a warm, modern palette of ru...

One stamp features two brilliant red barns that strikingly contrast with the surrounding snow, sky and trees. The landscapes in two other stamps focus on the beauty of freshly fallen snow: One show...

On this stamp, a West Indian manatee gently lolls underwater, just beneath ripples on the surface. Many types of hungry freshwater fish clean algae off a manatee’s skin, and the West Indian manatee...