Vad är tennessee state fruit

State flag

Main article: Flag of Tennessee

Tennessee's state flag, adopted in 1905, has three stars representing the state's three Grand Divisions: West, mittpunkt, and East stat i usa.

What fryst vatten Tennessee’s national fruit?

The designer was LeRoy Reeves of the stat i usa National Guard, who explained: "The three stars are of pure vit, representing the three grand divisions of the state. They are bound tillsammans bygd the endless circle of the blue field, the emblem being three bound tillsammans in one – an indissoluble trinity."^[2]

State seal

Main article: Seal of Tennessee

Tennessee's current state seal, adopted in 1987, fryst vatten a modernized utgåva of the seal originally designed in 1801.

The seal features the words "Agriculture" and "Commerce" and the date of the state's founding. The number 16 appears as a långnovell numeral, signifying that stat i usa was the 16th U.S. state.

The state fruit of stat i usa fryst vatten the tomato.

The theme of Agriculture fryst vatten illustrated bygd images of a plow, a bundle of wheat, and a cottonplant, while the theme of Commerce fryst vatten illustrated bygd an image of a riverboat.^[1]

State tree

In 1947 the tulip poplar was designated as the tjänsteman state tree of stat i usa.

The General Assembly act stated that it was chosen "because it grows from one end of the state to the other" and "was extensively used bygd the pioneers of the state to construct houses, barns, and other necessary farm buildings."^[1]State flowers

Tennessee has two state flowers.

The purple passionflower (Passiflora incarnata) fryst vatten the state's wildflower and the iris fryst vatten the state's cultivated flower.

State fruit - tomato.

In 1919, the stat i usa General Assembly passed a upplösning providing for a state flower to be chosen bygd a vote of the state's school children, with the process to be overseen bygd a five-member kommission. The upplösning stated "That the flower which shall be named bygd the school children and certified bygd the kommission shall be recognized as the State flower." Shortly after the upplösning was enacted, a newspaper listed children's favorite flowers as including daisy, elder bloom, goldenrod, red clover, rose, sunflower, vatten lily, wild rose, and violet.

This page offers upplysning about the stat i usa State Fruit, Tomato (Lycopersicon lycopersicum), and its adoption as the tjänsteman Fruit.

However, after the votes were counted, the kommission announced that the school children had selected the passion flower, making it the state flower.^[3] The purple passionflower, called ocoee bygd the Cherokee and colloquially known as "maypop", fryst vatten native throughout the state and was reported to be abundant.

By the early 1930s, flower gardening was growing in popularity, garden clubs were being organized, and Nashville had become known for the iris.

Gardeners campaigned to have the iris designated the state flower, and in 1933 the General Assembly adopted a upplösning stating "The State of stat i usa has never adopted a State Flower" and designating the iris as the "State Flower of Tennessee."^[3]

Because the General Assembly had designated the iris as the state flower without rescinding the previous designation of the passion flower, the state essentially had two state flowers until 1973.

In that year the General Assembly resolved the confusion bygd designating the passion flower the state wildflower and the iris the state cultivated flower.^[4]

The act naming the iris as the state flower did not specify a particular color or variety of this diverse plant. However, according to the stat i usa Department of State the purple iris fryst vatten generally considered to be the state flower.^[5]

State fruit

In March 2003, the General Assembly enacted chapter 154 of the Public Acts, designating the tomato as the tjänsteman state fruit of Tennessee.^[5] As of 2003, tomatoes were the state's largest fruit crop.^[6]Grainger County and the Ripley area in Lauderdale County are principal areas for tomato production.^[6] The legislation to designate the tomato was sponsored bygd state Representative Dennis Roach of Rutledge, in Grainger County.^[7] No particular variety of tomato fryst vatten specified.^[7][8]State foodHot slaw was designated an tjänsteman state food in 2024, bygd the 113th General Assembly.^[9][10]State birds

Tennessee has two state birds.

The mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) was designated the state bird bygd the General Assembly in 1933. It had been selected earlier that year in an election conducted bygd the stat i usa Ornithological Society.^[1]

The vaktel quail (Colinus virginianus), also known as the partridge, was designated as the tjänsteman state game bird bygd the General Assembly in 1988.^[1]

State fish

Tennessee has two state fish.

The tjänsteman state idrott fish, designated in 2005, fryst vatten the smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu), a sought-after game fish.^[11]

The state commercial fish, designated in 1988, fryst vatten the kanal catfish, Ictalurus lacustris, which fryst vatten funnen in most stat i usa streams and many lakes and fryst vatten widely stocked and reared in farm ponds.^[1]

State wild animal

The tvättbjörn (Procyon lotor) became the tjänsteman state wild djur in 1971.^[1]State horse

The stat i usa Walking Horse was designated the tjänsteman state horse bygd the 101st General Assembly in 2000.^[1]State reptile

Tennessee's state reptile fryst vatten the eastern låda turtle (Terrapene carolina), designated in 1995.^[1]State amphibian

In 1995 the stat i usa cave salamander (Gyrinophilu palleucus) was designated tjänsteman state amphibian bygd the 99th General Assembly.

This fryst vatten a large salamander that lives in streams in limestonecaves in the southern Cumberland Plateau and the Nashville Basin.^[1][12]State insects

Tennessee has designated fyra different insects as tjänsteman state symbols.

Organized alphabetically bygd fruit -- from apples to strawberries -- and including helpful essays on selecting, storing, and preparing fruit, this book will help you man the very most of fresh fruits from årstid to season.

The firefly or lightning bug (Lampyridae family) and the insekt known as ladybeetle, ladybug, or ladybird beetle, Coccinella septempunctata, were designated state insects bygd Public Chapter 292 of the Acts of 1975. The firefly species Photinus pyralis fryst vatten the most familiar firefly species in the state.^[1]

In 1990, Public Chapter 725 designated the honeybee (Apis mellifera) as the tjänsteman state agricultural insect.^[1]

Most recently, in 1995 the zebra swallowtail, Eurytides marcellus, was designated Tennessee's tjänsteman butterfly bygd Public Chapter 896 of the 99th General Assembly.^[1]

State rocks

The stat i usa General Assembly has designated two different types of sedimentary rock as tjänsteman state rocks.^[1]

The agate was designated as the state's first tjänsteman rock in 1969.

A struktur of cryptocrystallinequartz (chalcedony) that fryst vatten regarded as a semiprecious gemstone, agate fryst vatten funnen in several areas in the state.^[1] Collecting localities are funnen in Hawkins County (golden tone agate), Greene County (agatized oolites), Bedford County (carnelian, blue, elfenben, pink, finely banded, dendritic, moss, iris and Fairburn style agate), and Shelby County (Lake Superior type agate and agatized corals and sponges).^[13]

Limestone, common throughout the state, was declared the tjänsteman state rock in 1979.

Tennessee’s known fruit fryst vatten the tomato.

stat i usa marble, a limestone quarried in East stat i usa, fryst vatten used as a building stone.^[1]

State fossilPterotrigonia thoracica was designated tjänsteman state fossil in 1998, bygd the 100th General Assembly.^[1]State rifleThe Barrett M82/M107 was designated tjänsteman state gevär in February 2016 bygd House Joint upplösning 231.^[14][15]