Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Haas Apple
Haas is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Missouri, US (before 1875). Fruit oblate-conic, ribbed, yellow with red flush. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1860), painted by Bertha Heiges and Amanda Almira Newton, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Haas |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1860 |
| Artist(s) | Heiges, Bertha, Newton, Amanda Almira |
| Specimen origin | Maine; Arkansas, Madison, Pettigrew |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 2 |
All 2 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00002253, POM00002254.
