Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Api Rose is a very old French cultivar suited to small gardens and enthusiasts of decorative heritage fruit. Its small, flattened apples have crisp, sweet flesh and can keep until spring. The tree crops heavily, while late flowering reduces exposure to spring frost. The variety is self-sterile, however, and requires a compatible pollinating apple tree nearby.

Api Rose

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

An old Api apple variety producing small crisp fruit with pale yellow skin flushed rose-red on the sunny side.

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1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Apple rootstock options

Bittenfelder – approx. 6 m mature height

EM9 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

M116 – approx. 4 m mature height

MM111 – approx. 4 m mature height

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SKU: 13884 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

Api Rose Apple Tree is a very old apple variety, part of the historic Api group, appreciated for its small, attractive and long-keeping fruit.

The apples are small, round and slightly flattened, with pale yellow skin becoming bright rose-red to carmine on the sunny side. The flesh is white, crisp, sweet and pleasantly aromatic, with flavour that improves during storage.

Api Rose is generally harvested from September to October and can be kept for several months, often becoming more enjoyable from winter onwards.

The tree has moderate vigour and can be productive, making it suitable for traditional orchards, gardens and trained forms such as cordons or goblets.

This variety is particularly interesting for collectors and heritage orchards looking for a decorative old apple with good storage qualities and refined flavour.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Very old Api apple, of ancient and uncertain origin, documented in the Aosta Valley at least as early as 1788 and associated with mountain orchards.

Origin

France

USDA zone

Zone 5 (-29C)

Flowering

4 - late

Harvest period

November 1-15, October 15-31

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Synonyms

Pomme d’Api, Petit Api, Api fin, Api rouge, De Long-Bois, Lady Apple, Pomme Dieu

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Fairly vigorous, productive, suited to various tree forms and mountain regions, tendency to biennial bearing

Disease behaviour

Scab

Low susceptibility

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 4 - late.

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