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Api Noir
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in France. Known in the late 1700s. Fruits are sweet, crisp and juicy with an aromatic flavour. Very similar to Api.
- Synonyms:
- Api chernoe, Apis Noir, Black Lady Apple, Calvau noir, Calvau Noire, d'Api Noire, de Caluau, De Pommier a Fruit noir, Pomme de Calvau, Pomme de Pommier a Fruit Noir, Pommier a fruit noir, Schwarze Api, Schwarzer Api
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- small 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Dark Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1952 - 106
- Accession name
- Api Noir
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
11th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019