Thailand Stamps 2015: New Year 2016 (1st Series: Ginger-Galangal Botanic Garden)

The first set of commemorative stamp of 2016 New Year's of beautiful enticing floras from ginger-galangal plants from Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden in Chiang Mai to celebrate the Queen's 7th cycle Birthday Anniversary, printed as stamp sheets with twelve stamps in different twelve designs which appears as the continuous painting series of ginger-galangal botanic displaying portraits of white ginger, foxtail orchid, etlingera, torch ginger, siam tulip, globba, shampoo ginger.
Ginger-galangal plants have been introduced and used in Thailand for a long time as spices, herbs while some species are internationally recognized for their vital benefits, consequently become economically valuable gaining an interest from public. There are studies to discover their other benefits for example their essential oils for an aromatherapy purpose. The botanic garden gathers more than 180 ginger-galangal species in display which offers the largest species diversity ever found in Asean to show a fully biological potential of ginger-galangal plants and the abundance of natural resources in Thailand.

Date of Issue: 16 November 2015
Denonmination: 3,00 Baht (12 designs)
Quantity: 400,000 pieces per design
Printing Process: Lithography
Colour: Multi-colour
Sheet Composition: 12 stamps per sheets (different designs)
First Day Cover: 59,00 Baht (salable in a set of 2 covers)