Apricorn

If you were looking for the crafting material in Pokémon Legends: Arceus, see Apricorn (item).

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Apricorns (Japanese: ぼんぐりのみ Bonguri Fruit) are fruits that can be used to construct Poké Balls. They grow in the Johto, Kanto^HGSS, and Hisui regions, and on Galar's Isle of Armor.

The seven varieties of Apricorn that were introduced in Pokémon Gold and Silver

Apricorns can be hollowed out and fitted with special devices to function as Poké Balls. Before modern Poké Balls became standardized, everyone created them in this way. In ancient Hisui, people crafted Poké Balls using Brown Apricorns and Tumblestones. The practice is still performed in the modern day by specialists, such as Kurt. In the animated series, the process of making Poké Balls with Apricorns was developed sometime between 400 and 700 years before the present day (between the burning of Brass Tower and the first Orange League competitions).^{[citation needed]}

Because the outer skin of Apricorns are so tough, they cannot be eaten by Pokémon unprocessed. In the wild, Pokémon wait for them to turn into Spoiled Apricorns and eat through the softened skin to the insides.^{[citation needed]} Trainers can blend Apricorns in an Apriblender to make Aprijuice for their Pokémon to drink. Many of them are noted to have a distinct smell.

List of Apricorns

	Name	Corresponding Poké Ball		Corresponding performance stat(s)	Corresponding Aprijuice flavor
	Black Apricorn		Heavy Ball	All	All
	Blue Apricorn		Lure Ball	Skill	Dry
	Green Apricorn		Friend Ball	Jump	Bitter
	Pink Apricorn		Love Ball	Speed	Sweet
	Red Apricorn		Level Ball	Power	Spicy
	White Apricorn		Fast Ball	None	None
	Yellow Apricorn		Moon Ball	Stamina	Sour
	Apricorn (Brown Apricorn)		Poké Ball Great Ball Ultra Ball Heavy Ball Leaden Ball Gigaton Ball Feather Ball Wing Ball Jet Ball	N/A	N/A
	Spoiled Apricorn	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

In the core series games

The group of Apricorn trees on Route 37 in Generation II

The group of Apricorn trees on Route 37 in Generation IV

Generation II

The Apricorn Box

The primary method of obtaining Apricorns is from Apricorn trees. These trees yield one Apricorn per day. In the Generation II games, only one of each Apricorn is available per day, from the Apricorn trees on Routes 37 and 42 and in Azalea Town.

Apricorns can be turned into Poké Balls. In Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal, the player can give Apricorns to Kurt in Azalea Town, who will have turned them into Poké Balls by the next day. In Gold and Silver, he can only craft one Poké Ball at a time, whereas in subsequent games he can craft any number of the same Poké Ball at once.

Generation IV

In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, Apricorns are much more widely available. Locations that contained Berry trees in Generation II now contain Apricorn trees instead, sometimes with the number of trees also being increased. Green Apricorns are by far the most common, appearing in eight places; while White and Red Apricorns are the least common, each only appearing in three places.

Kurt can make Poké Balls the same way that he did in Generation II, except he can craft numerous balls at once. Apricorns can also be blended using an Apriblender to make drinks which improve a Pokémon's performance for Pokéathlon competitions. The color of the Apricorns corresponds to their flavor and associated performance stat, with the White and Black Apricorns affecting all stats.

Exclusively in Generation IV, Apricorns cannot be held, in order to prevent them being traded to Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum (where they do not exist). In these games, Apricorns are placed in the Apricorn Box instead of the Bag's Items pocket.

A Pokémon caught in an Apricorn Poké Ball can be traded to Diamond, Pearl or Platinum, although the Pokémon's Poké Ball will appear as a standard Poké Ball in those games. If traded back, they will retain the ball type they were originally obtained in. Ball type is retained on transfer into Generation V.

Pokémon Sword and Shield

In the Pokémon Sword and Shield Expansion Pass, the player can find and use Apricorns on the Isle of Armor growing on trees similar to that of a Berry tree. Inside Mustard's room in the Master Dojo, the player can find the Cram-o-matic, a robot resembling a Cramorant, made by Mustard's son Hyde. It can be fed four Apricorns to create a random Poké Ball from a selection determined by the combination of Apricorns put in.

In the Isle of Armor and the Crown Tundra, Apricorns are obtained by shaking Berry trees. They can also be purchased from NPCs on the Isle of Armor by exchanging Watts.

As the Apricorn Box no longer exists, Apricorns can be held by a Pokémon and traded to other save files.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus

In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, with the game taking place in the past, all Poké Balls are crafted from Brown Apricorns (simply referred to as Apricorns in-game). Several varieties of Poké Balls can be constructed by using additional or alternative materials, but all Poké Balls (with exception of the Origin Ball) will use a Brown Apricorn.

Some species of Pokémon and trees may also drop Spoiled Apricorns, a type of Apricorn that cannot be used for crafting Poké Balls. Instead, they can be used to be thrown at wild Pokémon in an attempt to stun them. Spoiled Apricorns are also an ingredient for crafting Sticky Globs, which may also be used to stun wild Pokémon quicker. According to the item's description, Spoiled Apricorns are typically half eaten.

Brown Apricorns can be found growing on trees throughout the Hisui region. These Apricorns can be retrieved by having a Pokémon bump the tree they grow in. The Apricorns regrow quickly, once the player has left the vicinity. Spoiled Apricorns may also drop from these trees, in addition to being found by wild Pokémon.

Hisuian Voltorb and Electrode are noted to have biology similar to that of an Apricorn, stating that "The tissue on the surface of its body is curiously similar in composition to an Apricorn." Similarly, Lord Electrode's battle has Voltorb dropping similar to Apricorn fruit.

In the spin-off games

Pokémon Quest

An Apricorn in Pokémon Quest

An Apricorn is an ingredient that can be used in cooking to attract wild Pokémon in Pokémon Quest.

Description

Games Description Quest Hard and small ingredients.

Acquisition

Apricorn is a possible ingredient that can be obtained by completing expeditions. It can also be obtained randomly by recycling Power Stones.

In animation

Pokémon the Series

Pokémon the Series: Gold and Silver

Apricorns made their only major animated series appearance in Going Apricorn!. After Kurt had given Ash, Misty, and Brock a Fast Ball each, made from White Apricorns growing next to his house, he sent them to collect other Apricorns with Maizie. After several failed attempts at picking Apricorns, the group managed to pick two Blue Apricorns and a Black Apricorn, which Kurt used to make a pair of Lure Balls and a Heavy Ball for them, which they obtained shortly before leaving Azalea Town in the next episode.

Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl

In An Egg Scramble!, Yellow Apricorns were one of the things Khoury was selling at the Johto Festival.

Gallery

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  Black Apricorns
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  A Blue Apricorn
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  Green Apricorns
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  Pink Apricorns
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  Red Apricorns
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  A White Apricorn
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  Yellow Apricorns

Pokémon Horizons: The Series

In Found You, Fuecoco!, Apricorns were mentioned in one of Nidothing's videos.

In the manga

An Apricorn in Pokémon Adventures

Pokémon Adventures

Gold, Silver & Crystal arc

Apricorns were first seen in Teddiursa's Picnic, where Kurt's ability to turn them into special Poké Balls was demonstrated. Gold, unaware of Apricorns' true purpose, attempted and failed to eat one from a tree.

In Yikes, It's Yanma!, an Apricorn lottery was used to randomly decide which pairs of Gym Leaders from Kanto and Johto would face each other in an interregional exhibition tournament at Indigo Plateau. Erika and Pryce, due to their statuses as the leaders of their respective regions' Gym Leaders, were automatically selected to battle each other.

HeartGold & SoulSilver arc

In Out-Odding Oddish, Gold was seen running around the Pokéathlon Dome to make Aprijuice out of Apricorns with his Apriblender.

Gallery

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  A Blue Apricorn
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  A Red Apricorn
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  A White Apricorn
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  A Yellow Apricorn

In the TCG

The following gallery is of cards mentioning or featuring Apricorns in the Pokémon Trading Card Game.

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  Apricorn Forest (Aquapolis 118/147)
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  Vulpix (Aquapolis 116/147)
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  Bellsprout (Aquapolis 68/147)
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  Mankey (Aquapolis 92/147)
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  Aipom (Aquapolis 67/147)
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  Sudowoodo (Aquapolis 36/147)
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  Apricorn Maker (Skyridge 121/144)
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  Apricorn Maker (Celestial Storm 161/168)

Merchandise

Apricorns have been featured in several officially licensed figures and goods.

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  Delicious Adventure Togepi
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  Delicious Adventure Eevee
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  BIG Eraser Figure 3 - Johto Let's Go! Slowpoke
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  Gift of the Forest tissue box cover (featuring Pikachu and Furret)
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  Gift of the Forest Teddiursa plush keychain
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  Gift of the Forest Teddiursa canister
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  Gift of the Forest Pikachu canister
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  Gift of the Forest sticky note box
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  Onemuri Pikachu clear file

Trivia

Grn Apricorn's tree on Route 30 respawning at midnight

• In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, Apricorns have different sprites for the Apricorn Box and the Bag. In these games, the Bag sprites are only used in the point-exchange menu at the Pokéathlon Dome.
• Because of the length of the word "Apricorn", only the Red Apricorn is able to have its full color name in English prior to Generation VI, with the other six having abbreviated versions because item names are limited to 12 characters (including spaces). Starting in Generation VI, item names can be longer, and the Apricorns are all spelled out in full in English (although they were not made available until Generation VIII). In all generations in Japanese, abbreviation is used only for the Green Apricorn, which uses みど mido as an abbreviated form of みどり midori, green.
• In Generation IV, if an Apricorn tree is left bare and on-screen without turning the game off over midnight, the plant will sparkle (in the same way Berry plants do when advancing a stage) and an Apricorn will appear on it. If the game was in sleep mode (the Nintendo DS was closed) over midnight, this will happen as soon as the game is taken out of sleep mode.

Name origin

The word Apricorn may be a combination of "apricot" and "acorn".

Bonguri may come from ぼんたん bontan (pomelo) and どんぐり donguri (acorn).

In other languages

Language		Title
Chinese	Cantonese	球果 Kàuhgwó *
	Mandarin	球果 Qiúguǒ * 圓柑果實 / 圆柑果实 Yuángān Guǒshí *
Czech		Meruňák
Dutch		Abrikhorn
French		Noigrume
German		Aprikoko
Hebrew		אפריקורן Apricorn
Hindi		अॅप्रीकॉर्न Apricorn
Italian		Ghicocche
Korean		규토리 Gyutoli
Polish		Aprikorn
Portuguese	Brazil	Bolota
	Portugal	Apricorn
Romanian		Apricorn
Spanish	Latin America	Bonguri* Apricorn*
	Spain	Bonguri
Vietnamese		Trái Bonguri

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