About this stamp
On the Stamp
Sprays of pale violet Kurinji flowers against green hills and a cloudy sky.
Kurinji
India Post issued this ₹15 stamp, also in a miniature sheet, on 29 May 2006. Kurinji or Neelakurinji (Strobilanthes kunthiana) is a shrub of the shola forests of the Western Ghats in Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Its purplish blue flowers bloom only once in twelve years, and gave the Nilgiri Mountains their name, from nil, blue, and giri, mountains; 2006, the year of the stamp, was one of its flowering years. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamps themselves.
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