Timeline of United States discoveries
The Red Delicious is a clone of apple cultigen, now comprising more than 50 cultivars. The Red Delicious apple was discovered in 1875 by Jesse Hiatt on his farm in Peru, Iowa. Believing that the seedling was nothing more than nuisance. After chopping down the tree three times, Hiatt decided to let the tree grow and eventually, it produced an unknown and new harvest of red apples. Hiatt would eventually sell the rights to this type of apple to the Stark Brothers Nurseries and Orchards who renamed it the Red Delicious.
Passiflora nitida
Passiflora nitida, the bell apple, is a tasty, but relatively unknown passion fruit. It is similar to "P. laurifolia", with orange-yellow fruits that have a sweet, succulent pulp. It is a fast-growing tropical vine. Its flowers are blue and red, a bit like "P. laurifolia" and "P. quadrangularis". The fruits grow up to . The exact hardiness in unknown, but it is tropical and should be protected from prolonged temperatures below . It is not frost hardy. "Passiflora nitida" is the cousin of almost all the "Passiflora" species like "P. actinia", "P. flavicarpa", "P. loefgrenii" and so on. Its propagation is by seeds. The fruits are eaten fresh and reportedly quite good in flavor. The bell apple is a native to the Amazon jungle region. "Passiflora nitida" is also a useful fruit in a drink called Purple Passion. "Passiflora nitida" has one of the widest geographic ranges. It grows in the tropical lowlands from Costa Rica in the north and French Guiana in the northeast, through wide parts of Brazil.