apple 'Api'

Also known as: Lady Apple

An historic (17th century) late-season dessert apple with crisp flesh and a sweet, fruity flavour. It is not very vigorous, and forms an upright, compact tree. Prolific pinkish-red flowers are followed by fruit somewhat flattened in shape, yellow flushed with red, ripening in mid-autumn and storing to mid-spring. It is self-sterile, pollination group 3, and can be slow to reach cropping age

Scientific classification

Species: apple 'Api' (Malus domestica 'Api')
Genus: Malus
Family: Rosaceae

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Toxicity: Fruit Edible · Trees
Plant type: 4-8 metres
Height: 4-8 metres
Spread: Deciduous
Foliage: Bushy
Habit: Spring · Summer · Autumn
Season of interest: Full sun
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Distribution of apple 'Api'

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Culture

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Quick identification of apple 'Api'

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apple 'Api' care guide

Deep watering during dry spells, allowing slight surface drying between soakings
Watering: Full sun
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Watering

Deep watering during dry spells, allowing slight surface drying between soakings

Fertilizing

Balanced shrub or tree feed once each early spring

Pruning

Prune according to chosen training method. See apple pruning. Thin fruit in late spring or early summer to improve size and quality. See fruit thinning

Propagation

Propagate by grafting in midwinter or chip budding in late summer on clonal rootstock for fruit. The rootstock will largely determine the vigour of the tree. Fruit grown from pips will not resemble the parent

Growing

Prefers a deep, fertile, moist but well-drained, neutral soil in a sheltered, sunny position. Will not thrive on very acid soils, shallow chalk soils or with shade for more than half the day. See apple cultivation

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