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Apples · USDA pomological watercolour

Green Cheese Apple

Historical USDA watercolour of the Green Cheese Apple apple, painted 1840

Green Cheese is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in North Carolina or Georgia, US (18th century). It was grown primarily for eating. A very old southern apple thought to have originated in North Carolina. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with a watercolour study (1840), painted by Deborah Griscom Passmore, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.

CultivarGreen Cheese
SpeciesMalus domestica
Common fruitApple
Painted1840
Artist(s)Passmore, Deborah Griscom
Specimen originCanada, Trenton
CollectionUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
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Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate id: POM00002057.

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