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Nature Conservation
Forest Fruits - Common Strawberry
Catalogue Number:  216
Stamp Design:  Vladimír Machaj
Stamp Engraving:  František Horniak
Date of Issue:  July 26, 2000
Printing:  Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague, Czech Republic
Print Technology:  Recess printing from flat plates combined with offset
Size of Impression:  30.0 mm x 23.0 mm
Print Run:  100,000
FDC Design:  Vladimír Machaj
FDC Engraving:  Martin Srb according to the drawing lines of František Horniak
Cancellation Design:  Vladimír Machaj
FDC Printing:  Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague, Czech Republic
FDC Print Technology:  Recess printing from flat plates
FDC Print Run:  6,000

Common Strawberry -Fragaria vesca L.
The common strawberry largely grows in the entire country in light forests and shrubby hillsides from the lowlands to the sub-alpine level. It is an ever-bearer plant from the Rosaceae family, it blossoms from May to June, the fruits ripen from June to July. The common strawberry is extended in the entire central Europe. Already in the antics the strawberries were gathered as forest fruits suitable for preparation of syrups and jams. The fresh fruits are a healthy and nutritious delicacy. The young leaves are within living memory used for the preparation of a daily tea for the purposes of the folk healing. They contain tanning substances, C vitamin and flavonoids. The common strawberry is cultivated in a garden variety known as "monthly strawberries".

Dr Mária Vozárová


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