Applevariety
Api Noir
Also known as Api chernoe +12
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
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, flat in shape; sweet, aromatic, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · France
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour Dark RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage high-very high
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- small
- Appearance
- very lowSurface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Api Noir began
Recorded origin
France
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- small
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- 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
- over colour
- Dark Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
Photos

National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.