It falls into the Api family of apple cultivars.

The apple has light green and pink skin.

Its thick and waxy skin protects the flesh from moisture making it keep longer than other apples.

[2] The tree possesses long and slender branches.

[7][8] The Api Etoile was first described in the 17th century by the Swiss botanist J. Bauhin in Historia plantarum universalis under the name Pomum Pentagonum (transl.