The cultivar has gained a variety of known names in English, and is commonly referred to as Api or the Lady Apple.

[2][3] André Leroy thoroughly describes the Pomme d'Api fruits, history, and trees in his 1873 Dictionnaire de pomologie (Dictionary of apples).

[2] In that regard, the fruit is stated to originate as cultivated by an Etruscan farmer Appius in honour of Theophrastus's botanical works.

The apple has then been grown at the orchards that the Romans have established in the regions of Spain, France, and Britain.

In a 1914 study, Cyrus R. Crosby has noted that two thirds of the examined Lady apples from an orchard have been heavily infested by the wasp.