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          New Year 2016 - 
			
			
			Gingers (2015) 
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					| Issue 
					Name: | 
					New Year 2016 - Gingers |  
					| Thai Issue 
					Name: | 
					ชุดปีใหม่ 2559 - 
					ขิง |  
					| Issue Date: | 
					2015/2558-11-16 |  
					| Cause: | 
					To mark New Year 2016 and to 
					publicize ginger-galangal plants from the 
					
					Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden
					(fig.) in 
					
					
		      	Chiang Mai in order to celebrate the 
					Queen's 7th Birthday Cycle Anniversary in 2016. |  
					| Catalogue Number: | 
					2015/60-71 |  
					| Denomination: | 
					3 Baht (10 designs) |  
					| Unused Value: | 
					4 Baht (10 designs) |  
					| Complete Set: | 
					40 Baht (unused), 10 Baht 
					(used) |  
					| Thailex Collection: | 
					n/a |  
					| Size: | 
					29 x 
					24 mm |  
					| Quantity 
					of Stamps: | 
					400,000 pieces per design |  
					| Printer: | 
					Thai British Security 
					Printing Public Company Limited, Thailand |  
					| Subject: | 
					Various 
	
			ginger-galangal plants from the Queen 
	  
			 
			Sirikit
	Botanic Garden in 
	
		      Chiang Mai: 
	1. Plateau Ginger (Boesenbergia 
	alba); 2. Moon Ginger (Monolophus 
					appendiculatus); 3. Ground Ginger (Etlingera araneosa); 
					4. 
					Malacca Alpinia (Alpinia malaccensis); 
					5. Princess Ginger (Zingiber sirindhorniae); 
					6. Siam Platinum (Curcuma supraneeana); 
					7. Yellow Butterfly Ginger (Hedychium flavescens); 
					8. 
					Burmese
	Rhynchanthus (Rhynchanthus longiflorus); 9. 
					
					
					Siam Tulip 
					(Curcuma alismatifolia); 
					10. 
					
					Beehive Ginger (Zingiber spectabile); 
					11. 
					Lesser Ginger or 
					
          			
	      			Galangal
	      (Alpinia conchigera); 
					12. Rose 
					Torch Ginger (Etlingera hemisphaerica). |  
					| Related Link: | 
			      
					ginger, 
					
          
	      galangal, 
					
					
					kha,
					
					
					khing,
					
					
		      	Chiang Mai, 
			      
			      
			      
			      Sirikit Kitthiyagon, 
			      
			      torch ginger, 
					
					
					Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden,
					
					
					Beehive Ginger,
					
					
					
					Siam Tulip, 
					
					
					Shampoo Ginger |      
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