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Golden Delicious was designated the official state fruit of West Virginia by a Senate resolution on February 20, 1995. [9] Clay County has hosted an annual Golden Delicious Festival since 1972. In 2010, an Italian-led consortium announced they had decoded the complete genome of the Golden Delicious apple. [ 10 ]
State pie. Apple pie, required by law to be served with: a glass of cold milk, a slice of cheddar cheese weighing a minimum of 1/2 ounce, or. a large scoop of vanilla ice cream. 1999 [108][109] State vegetable. Gilfeather Turnip.
The flag of West Virginia consists of the coat of arms, wreathed below in rhododendron and bannered with "State of West Virginia" above, on a white field bound in blue. 1929 [1] Motto. Montani Semper Liberi. (Mountaineers [are] Always Free) 1863, [1][2] 1872 [3] —. Seal. The Great Seal of the State of West Virginia.
The fruit is a lemon-shaped nut, produced in bunches of two to six together; the nut is oblong-ovoid, 3–6 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long and 2–4 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) broad, surrounded by a green husk before maturity in midautumn. Fossilized Juglans cinerea (fossil white walnut) in Pleistocene glacial sediments, Michigan
Asimina triloba. Asimina triloba, the American papaw, pawpaw, paw paw, or paw-paw, among many regional names, is a small deciduous tree native to the eastern United States and southern Ontario, Canada, producing a large, yellowish-green to brown fruit. [3][4][5] Asimina is the only temperate genus in the tropical and subtropical flowering plant ...
The cuisine of Appalachia focuses on seasonal local ingredients and practices like pickling, foraging, canning and food preserving. [1][3][4][2] Appalachian cuisine is a subset of Southern cuisine, and is specifically different because of the cold winters and the mountainous landscape. [3][5][6][7][8] Promoters of Appalachian foodways include ...
The sugar maple will generally begin flowering when it is between 10 and 200 years old. The fruit is a pair of samaras (winged seeds). The seeds are globose, 7–10 mm (9 ⁄ 32 – 13 ⁄ 32 in) in diameter, the wing 2–3 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long. The seeds fall from the tree in autumn, where they must be exposed to 45 days of ...
Maclura pomifera, commonly known as the Osage orange (/ ˈoʊseɪdʒ / OH-sayj), is a small deciduous tree or large shrub, native to the south-central United States. It typically grows about 8 to 15 metres (30–50 ft) tall. The distinctive fruit, a multiple fruit, is roughly spherical, bumpy, 8 to 15 centimetres (3–6 in) in diameter, and ...