Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Champion Apple
Champion is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Czechoslovakia (, introduced 1976). It was grown primarily for eating. P Golden Delicious x Cox Orange Pippin. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 3 watercolour studies (1840), painted by Deborah Griscom Passmore and Bertha Heiges, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Champion |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1840 |
| Artist(s) | Passmore, Deborah Griscom, Heiges, Bertha |
| Specimen origin | Missouri, Pike, Louisiana; Iowa, Madison, Peru |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 3 |
All 3 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00001782, POM00001784, POM00001788.
