Date of issue: 13 June 2023
Designer: Sharon Rodziewicz, Australia Post Design Studio
Printer: Southern Impact

This is one of two in a series of 'Norfolk Island Botanic Gardens' stamps.

Plant: Piper excelsum subsp. psittacorum

Family: PIPERACEAE

Pepper Tree

Shrub to 1.5 metres with aromatic, ovate to almost round leaves to 10 cm.
Tiny flowers appear in upright spikes in late winter and spring.
Distribution: Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands, and NZ.