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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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