Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Oskaloosa Apple
Oskaloosa is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in Iowa, US (before 1850). Flesh is juicy, subacid. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 2 watercolour studies (1838), painted by Bertha Heiges and William Henry Prestele, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Oskaloosa |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1838 |
| Artist(s) | Heiges, Bertha, Prestele, William Henry |
| Specimen origin | Iowa, Polk, Des Moines; Iowa, Lee, Denmark |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 2 |
All 2 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00000647, POM00000648.
