4071) Experience Nature - Flora Sint Eustatius: Experience Nature 2024-2026 Perennial Stamp Series": A set of Stamps issued by PostNL (Netherlands Post) featuring the Flora of St. Eustatius - Trees and Plants: Date/.Year of Stamp sheet issue: 10.08.2025:
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On 10 August 2025, PostNL will issue Experience Nature – flora Sint Eustatius, a sheet featuring 10 stamps in 10 different designs. The stamps have a denomination of 1 for mail up to 20 grams within the Netherlands.
This stamp sheet about the butterflies of Sint Eustatius is part of the multi-year series Experience Nature dedicated to the Caribbean Netherlands from 2024-2026.
Each year, the series features four stamp sheets, each with 10 different stamps.
The stamps depict plants and animals found in
this part of the Netherlands:
The islands in this region boast an extraordinary biodiversity by Dutch standards, with thousands of plant and animal species. In 2025, attention will be given to the birds, butterflies, underwater world, and flora of the island of Sint Eustatius.
PostNL has already issued 3 stamp sheets in the series this year, about the birds (2 January), the butterflies (10 March), and the underwater life (9 June) of the island.
On the final stamp sheet of 2025, Experience Nature – Flora of Sint Eustatius, the spotlight is on the following trees and plants: flamboyant tree, kapok tree, Tourist Tree, Columnar Cactus, sea grape, Giant Airplant, Eyelash Orchid, cocoa tree, coral vine, and Strangler Fig.
SINT EUSTATIUS:
The island of Sint Eustatius, like Bonaire and Saba, has a special status within the Netherlands. The collective name for the three islands is the Caribbean Netherlands.
Together with the countries Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten, they form the Caribbean part of the Kingdom. Sint Eustatius, known locally as Statia, is part of the Leeward Islands.
This designation refers to the position of the islands relative to the prevailing northeast trade winds. Sint Eustatius lies between Saba and Saint Kitts, separated from these islands by a shallow sea. The only city and capital of Sint Eustatius is Oranjestad.
Since 2010, Sint Eustatius has been a special municipality, with the island council as the highest governing body responsible for local legislation.
The executive power lies with the island commissioners appointed by the island council, chaired by the governor.
About 3,000 people live on Sint Eustatius, and the island's official language is English. Sint Eustatius is dominated by the dormant volcano The Quill (601 metres) in the southeast and a 200,000-year-old extinct volcanic area in the north around the hill Bergje (223 metres). There are three national parks on the island: Quill/Boven National Park, Statia National Marine Park, and Miriam Schmidt Botanical Garden.
FLORA OF SINT EUSTATIUS:
Sint Eustatius has various landscapes, with volcanic areas in the northwest and southeast, and in between a plain that slopes northward.
The greatest variety in vegetation on the island is found on the slopes of the dormant volcano The Quill, in the southeast.
Here lies tropical rainforest with mahogany trees, beard mosses, and tree ferns. In this dense, tropical rainforest, many bromeliads, orchids, and other epiphytic plants grow on the branches of the trees, meaning they do not need soil to survive.
The outer wall of the crater and the slopes below it are covered with different forest types, ranging from dry to moist and from evergreen to deciduous.
The vegetation of the plain in the middle consists of open to very dense shrubland, interspersed with extensive grasslands. Here, partially feral goats, donkeys, cattle, and sheep graze almost year-round.
The vegetation of the northern part of the island consists of open to dense thorn shrub vegetation, interspersed with open grass vegetation and bare rocks.
Due to the strong wind, shrubs here often grow no taller than 50 centimetres.
On Sint Eustatius, flowers bloom all year round because the island has no seasons. For a small island, biodiversity is high, with a total of 500 higher plant species and over 75 plant families.
DESIGN:
The stamp sheet Experience Nature – Flora of Sint Eustatius is designed by graphic designer Frank Janse from Gouda.
On the sheet, all trees and plants are portrayed in their natural environment, each on their own stamp.
These are the following 10 species:
flamboyant tree, kapok tree, Tourist Tree, Columnar Cactus, sea grape, Giant
Airplant, Eyelash Orchid, cocoa tree, coral vine, and Strangler Fig.
All photos are placed in a graphic layer with circular shapes that are also visible on the sheet border.
The image sometimes continues onto the adjacent stamp and the sheet border.
In various places on the stamp sheet, the designer has added graphic elements derived from symbols on old topographic maps. These symbols indicate, for example, landscape forms, contour lines, vegetation, soil structures, and watercourses.
The design is also characterised by an extra transparent layer with monochrome images (both white and in colour) of characteristic flora and fauna from this area.
The monochrome images are rendered almost abstractly, extend across the perforations, and connect the stamps with each other and with the sheet border.
The following plants and animals are depicted in this way: sea grape (top left), Green-throated Carib (top right), coral vine (middle and bottom right), Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly (middle right), flower of the kapok tree (bottom left), and leaf of the flamboyant tree (middle bottom).
TYPOGRAPHY:
For the typography, the DIN 2014 font was used, designed by Vasily Biryukov from Bulgaria and released by Paratype in 2015.
In the captions on the stamp sheet, designer Frank Janse creatively and humorously expresses his associations with the names, characteristics, and appearances of the depicted trees and plants.
DESIGNER:
In 2024, 2025, and 2026, the stamp series Experience Nature focuses on the plants and animals of the Caribbean Netherlands. In 2024, the Leeward island of Bonaire kicked off the series, and this year, attention is on the nature of the Windward island of Sint Eustatius, located over 800 kilometres northeast of Bonaire.
Explosive colours:
The stamps about the flora of Sint Eustatius are the last of this year in the Experience Nature series.
The 2025 stamp sheets were once again designed by graphic designer Frank Janse, as always within the existing design concept for the stamp series.
For the Experience Nature series about the Caribbean Netherlands, a selection of all animals and plants for the islands to be featured—Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba—was already made in 2023.
When choosing the species to be depicted, Janse always tries to create interesting combinations, with as much variety as possible.
Technical details:
Issue Date: 11.08.2025
Designer: Frank
Janse, Gouda
Printer: Koninklijke Joh.
Enschedé B.V., Haarlem
Process: Offset
Colours: Cyan, magenta,
yellow, and black (CMYK)
Size:
Stamp Size: 40.00
mm x 30 mm,
Sheet Size:
122.00 mm x 170.00 mm
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