Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Kentucky Long Stem Apple
Kentucky Long Stem is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Kentucky, US (before 1850). It was grown primarily for eating. Flesh greenish white, sweet, subacid. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1840–1875), painted by Deborah Griscom Passmore and Royal Charles b. Steadman, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Kentucky Long Stem |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1840–1875 |
| Artist(s) | Passmore, Deborah Griscom, Steadman, Royal Charles b. |
| Specimen origin | Maryland, Caroline, Denton; Virginia, Arlington |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 2 |
All 2 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00002033, POM00002034.
