About this stamp
On the Stamp
Ghritkumari plants, the fleshy toothed leaves of aloe, with tall stems of orange flowers against a hillside, named in Hindi, English and Latin, “Aloe barbadensis”, on an ₹11 stamp.
Indian Medicinal Plants
India Post issued four stamps of medicinal plants on 28 October 1997: Tulsi at ₹2, Haridra (turmeric) at ₹5, Sarpagandha at ₹10 and Ghritkumari at ₹11, also printed together as a block of four. Ghritkumari is aloe vera, a succulent of the genus Aloe; it now grows across much of the world, and is counted as an invasive species in many regions. 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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