Api rose (Creuse)
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- small-medium 2
- Height
- 40.50mm 2
- Width
- 49.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- very weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1948 - 223
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948 from France. Thought to be a form of Api. Fruits are sweet, crisp and juicy.
- Accession name
- Api Rose (Creuse)
- Flowering time ›››
- 19th May10% flowering
24th MayFull (80%) flowering 31st 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
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