Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Gloria Mundi Apple
Gloria Mundi is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in US (before 1804). It was grown primarily for cooking. An excellent green culinary apple. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 4 watercolour studies (1860–1873), painted by Mary Daisy Arnold and Amanda Almira Newton, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Gloria Mundi |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1860–1873 |
| Artist(s) | Arnold, Mary Daisy, Newton, Amanda Almira |
| Specimen origin | Virginia, Charlottesville; Tennessee, Midway |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 4 |
All 4 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00002469, POM00002470, POM00002471, POM00002472.
