Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Mangum Apple
Mangum is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Southern US (before 1850). It was grown primarily for eating. Flesh yellow, tender, juicy, subacid. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1873–1882), painted by Ellen Isham Schutt and Elsie E. b. Lower, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Mangum |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1873–1882 |
| Artist(s) | Schutt, Ellen Isham, Lower, Elsie E. b. |
| Specimen origin | Georgia, Franklin, Royston; Georgia, Fulton, Atlanta |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 2 |
All 2 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00001526, POM00001527.
