The World of Apples

Apple varieties, France

Gros-Api

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:

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.

Sources

  1. Gros-Api (accession 1952 - 108), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (late october); the other names.
  2. Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).

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