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Gros-Api
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Said to have originated in the Forest of Api in Brittany, France. It was recorded in 1628. Fruits have firm, fine, white flesh with a sweet, subacid and perfumed flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Api Blanc, Api Bolshoe, Api Double, Api grand, Api Grande, Api gros, Api Grosse, Api le gros, Api rose, de Rose, Dieu, Doppelter Api, Double Api, Double Rose, Double-Api, Double-Rose, Drap d'Or (Villeneuve d'Agen), Gros Api, Gros Api d'Hiver, Gros Api rouge, Gros- Api d'Hiver, Gros-Api rouge, Gros-Apis, Grosse Pomme de de Long-Bois, Grosse-Pomme de Long- Bois, Grosser Api, Grosser Apis, Large Lady Apple, Passe Rose, Passe-Rose, Poma Rosa, Pomme d'Api Gros, Pomme d'Api-Gros, Pomme de Rose, Pomme Dieu, Pomme Rose, Rose, Rose de l'Agenais, Rose de l'Angenais, Rose de Provence, Rose Double Api, Rosen Apfel, Rosen Api, Rosenapfel, Rosenapi, Rubenapfel, Rubin, Rubis, Vermillon, Vermillon Rubis
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1952 - 108
- Accession name
- Gros-Api
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
13th MayFull (80%) flowering 20th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Flat 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium-strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low-medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 1

- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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