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On the Stamp
A branch of large yellow flowers with green leaves, buds, a ripe fruit and tufts of seed fluff, with the name “Cochlospermum religiosum” in Hindi and Latin, on a ₹6 stamp.
Khumphi, Cochlospermum religiosum
India Post issued four stamps on 9 October 1993 as Indian Flowering Trees, at ₹1, ₹6, ₹8 and ₹11. This one shows khumphi, a small tree of dry deciduous forests. Its name comes from the use of its flowers as temple offerings. It is also called the silk-cotton tree, for the fluffy fibre around its seeds, which the stamp shows, and the buttercup tree, for its large yellow flowers. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.
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