Cydonia oblonga ‘Champion’

Artist Andrea Kirjassoff grew up in California near the Huntingdon Library where she appreciated its great botanical gardens. She continued her love of plants through drawing, painting and documenting botanical subjects from her own garden and beyond. The quince was cut from one of the heritage trees in the Filoli estate’s Gentlemen’s Orchard. ‘Champion’ aged delightfully to its characteristic gold and perfumed the air as she painted. Andrea can think of no more quintessentially heritage fruit than the quince.