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Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Coffelt Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Coffelt Apple apple, painted 1840

Coffelt is a heritage apple cultivar from US. It was grown primarily for eating. Flesh whitish, firm, tender, juicy, subacid, good. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 3 watercolour studies (1840), painted by Bertha Heiges and Deborah Griscom Passmore, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.

CultivarCoffelt
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1840
Artist(s)Heiges, Bertha, Passmore, Deborah Griscom
Specimen originArkansas, Washington, Springdale; West Virginia, Hampshire, Levels; Missouri, Pike, Louisiana
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates3

All 3 plates

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00001646, POM00001647, POM00001648.

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