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Christmas Island Botanical Postage Stamps


Date of issue: 21 August 1991
Designer: Jane Moore, Christmas Island
Printer: Leigh-Mardon Pty Ltd, Melbourne

Part of a series of four stamps on large trees

Plant: Syzygium nervosum

(the older name on stamp is Syzygium operculatum)

Family: MYRTACEAE



Gowok
(C.I.), Satinash (Aust.)

This is a tree to 40 m tall with a strongly buttressed trunk.
On Christmas Island it forms about 18% of the primary forest canopy and about 30% of emergent species.
It is widely distributed from India, southern China to the Philippines and northern Australia.



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