What is "blueskin"

Blueskin may refer to:

• Acacia irrorata, Acacia species colloquially known as "blueskin" or green wattle, native to Australia
• The Andorians in the Star Trek series
• Joseph Blake (criminal), nicknamed "blueskin"
• Blueskin (horse): One of George Washington's favorite war horses
• Blueskin Bay, an estuary and rural district in New Zealand
• The Blueskins, a band from West Yorkshire
• A character in Gideon the Cutpurse
• Sparidae subspecies Polysteganus coeruleopunctatus, the blueskin seabream

Blueskin was a gray horse ridden by George Washington. He was one of Washington's two primary mounts during the American Revolutionary War. The horse was a half-Arabian, sired by the stallion "Ranger", also known as "Lindsay's Arabian", said to have been obtained from the Sultan of Morocco.

Blueskin, due to his white hair coat, was the horse most often portrayed in artwork depicting Washington on a horse. Washington's other primary riding horse was Nelson, a chestnut gelding said to be calmer under fire than Blueskin. Both horses were retired after the Revolutionary War and lived out their lives at Mount Vernon.