Add bright desert color and Southwestern botanical charm to your letters with these vintage unused “Blue Paloverde” postage stamps from the "Flowering Trees" series! This vibrant commemorative design is perfect for adding golden yellow blossoms, blue-green branches, Arizona scenery, Sonoran Desert style, Southwestern nature, and distinctive botanical detail to save-the-dates, wedding invitations, thank you cards, graduation announcements, desert weddings, spring mailings, floral correspondence, and other snail mail. In pristine mint condition and valid for current postage use, each stamp holds a face value of 32-cents. These authentic USPS postage stamps are suitable for current mailing when used with the total required postage based on the weight of your mailing.

Purchase includes a total of TEN (10) mint condition Blue Paloverde 32-cent postage stamps shown in the product listing photos. These are NOT forever stamps — you must combine additional postage with this stamp to mail your correspondence according to current USPS postage rate requirements.

STAMP INFORMATION:

• Stamp Name: Blue Paloverde
• Stamp Series: Flowering Trees
• Year Issued: 1998
• Face Value: 32-cents (USD) per stamp
• Topic(s): Blue Paloverde, Blue Palo Verde, Parkinsonia florida, Cercidium floridum, Arizona State Tree, Flowering Trees, Desert Flowers, Yellow Flowers, Botanical Art, Sonoran Desert, Arizona Flora, Southwest, Desert Trees, Nature, Garden, Floral, USPS Commemorative Stamps
• Color(s): Yellow, Green, Blue-Green, Brown, Black, Multicolored
• Mailing Occasions: Wedding Invitations, Save-the-Dates, Desert Weddings, Arizona Weddings, Southwestern Weddings, Spring Weddings, Garden Weddings, Botanical Weddings, Bridal Shower Invitations, Graduation Announcements, Thank You Notes, Nature Correspondence, Everyday Correspondence
• Printing Method: Offset, Microprint
• Scott Number: 3194
• Adhesion Type: Self-Adhesive
• Stamp Size: 40 x 32 mm / 1.57 × 1.26 in
• Condition: Genuine Unused USPS Postage Stamps, Ready to Use for USPS Mailings, Mint Condition

STAMP DESCRIPTION & HISTORY: The 1998 Blue Paloverde stamp was issued as part of the USPS Flowering Trees series, a five-stamp commemorative issue celebrating flowering trees associated with different regions of North America. This stamp features the Blue Paloverde, Parkinsonia florida, historically known as Cercidium floridum, shown with its bright yellow blossoms, blue-green branches, leaves, and seed pods in the style of a traditional botanical print. Artist John Dawson created the original artwork, with Howard Paine serving as USPS art director. Native to the dry landscapes of the American Southwest and northwestern Mexico, the Blue Paloverde is especially associated with Arizona and the Sonoran Desert, where it grows along washes, valleys, desert slopes, and other arid landscapes. Palo verde was designated Arizona’s official state tree in 1954, giving this stamp an especially strong connection to Arizona identity and Southwestern heritage. Issued on March 19, 1998, in New York, New York, the Flowering Trees stamps brought botanical art, regional nature, and springtime beauty together in a graceful USPS commemorative format.

FLOWER DESCRIPTION: Blue Paloverde flowers appear in brilliant clusters of small yellow blossoms, typically covering the tree in a vivid golden display during spring. The flowers have five petals and stand out dramatically against the tree’s distinctive green to blue-green bark and branches. Their bright desert color attracts bees, butterflies, and birds and gives the tree one of the most recognizable flowering displays of the Sonoran Desert. The combination of golden yellow blossoms and blue-green branches makes this stamp especially beautiful for Arizona weddings, desert celebrations, Southwestern invitation suites, botanical stationery, and warm natural color palettes.

STAMP MEANING & SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE: The Blue Paloverde carries themes of resilience, endurance, adaptability, vitality, warmth, renewal, and beauty flourishing in challenging conditions. Its ability to thrive in the desert and erupt into brilliant yellow bloom makes it a meaningful symbol of strength, optimism, and growth. For wedding invitations, save-the-dates, graduations, thank you notes, and other milestone correspondence, the Blue Paloverde can represent a relationship or new chapter rooted in resilience and illuminated by joy.

STAMP SERIES HISTORY: The Flowering Trees series was issued by the USPS in 1998 as a five-stamp commemorative set featuring flowering trees associated with different regions of North America. The set includes Southern Magnolia, Blue Paloverde, Yellow Poplar, Prairie Crab Apple, and Pacific Dogwood. Artist John Dawson created the original paintings in the style of old-fashioned botanical prints, with each stamp showing blossoms, leaves, stems, fruit, and identifying botanical details. Printed by the Banknote Corporation of America using offset printing and microprinting, the series remains especially appealing for collectors of flowers, trees, gardens, regional nature, botanical illustration, and elegant vintage postage.

GENUINE USPS POSTAGE: These unused vintage postage stamps are perfectly valid for use as current postage for mailing with USPS as long as you use an adequate amount of additional postage to achieve standard postage rates according to the weight of your mailing. Check current postage rates on the USPS website.

PROCESSING & SHIPPING: Orders are typically processed and shipped within 1-3 business days of placing your order. All orders are shipped from California — please allow additional time for transit.

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TELL YOUR STORY IN STAMPS: We’ve worked with hundreds of couples and their stationers to custom design highly stylized personalized postage sets based on our customer’s life stories. We can help you curate personalized vintage postage sets to commemorate your save-the-date, wedding, shower, announcement, and other special occasions in a truly unique fashion. Drawing on our encyclopedic knowledge of every stamp ever issued by the USPS, and sourcing from our extensive inventory of collectable unused vintage stamps, we’ll help you tell your unique story in stamps!

ABOUT HERITAGE POST HOUSE: Jennifer Kramer is the founder of Heritage Post House, a boutique vintage postage house located in Northern California. Jennifer sources the most beautiful unused vintage postage stamps ever issued by USPS and artfully arranges them into curated postage sets that are sure to add a special touch to your invitations, announcements, and special mailings. In addition to creating pre-arranged postage sets, Jennifer also works with couples (and their stationers) to create one-of-a-kind custom postage arrangements for wedding invitations, save the dates, and other special occasions.

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Product Specifications

Length: 1.57 in.
Height: 0.01 in.
Width: 1.26 in.
Weight: 0.01 lbs.