Apples · USDA pomological watercolour
Rambo Apple
Rambo is a heritage apple cultivar that originated in US (before 1850). It was grown primarily for cooking, eating. Width 78 mm, height 60 mm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture documented it with 7 watercolour studies (1840–1882), painted by James Marion Shull and Royal Charles b. Steadman, as official botanical identification records made before colour photography.
| Cultivar | Rambo |
|---|---|
| Species | Malus domestica |
| Common fruit | Apple |
| Painted | 1840–1882 |
| Artist(s) | Shull, James Marion, Steadman, Royal Charles b., Passmore, Deborah Griscom, Lower, Elsie E. b. |
| Specimen origin | Pennsylvania, Perry, Landisburg; New York, Albany, Albany; Massachusetts, Middlesex, Waltham; Maryland, Carroll, Westminster |
| Collection | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection |
| Plates | 7 |
All 7 plates
Public domain via the U.S. National Agricultural Library. Plate ids: POM00001238, POM00002880, POM00002881, POM00002882, POM00002883, POM00002884, POM00002885.
