2017 Strawberries Stamps

The U.S. Postal Service@ introduces Strawberries, a 3-cent stamp for 2017. The stamp wil be sold in coils of 3,000 or 10,000.The stamp features a pen, ink, and watercolor ilustration of three ripe, red strawberries surrounded by leaves and hulls and threesmaller, green strawberries in various stages of growth. A small white flower from the strawbemy plant completes the picture.

Species of strawbemy are naive to temperate regions around the world, but the garden strawberry we know today--Fragaria xananassa-is likely a hybrid of two species native to the Americas, Fragaria virginiana and Fragaria chiloensis.