Heirloom Fruit Watercolors

Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Fyan Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Fyan Apple apple, painted 1873

Fyan is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Missouri, US (introduced 1935). It was grown primarily for eating. P Ben Davis x Jonathan. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1873), painted by Mary Daisy Arnold and L.C.C. (Louis Charles Christopher) Krieger, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.

CultivarFyan
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1873
Artist(s)Arnold, Mary Daisy, Krieger, L.C.C. (Louis Charles Christopher)
Specimen originMissouri, Wright, Mountain Grove
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Plates2

All 2 plates

Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00001908, POM00002188.

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