Apricorn

*If you were looking for the item found in 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 Pokéballs. They grow in the Johto region, Kanto region,**HGSS** Hisui region, and Galar's Isle of Armor.

Apricorns can be hollowed out and fitted with special devices to function as Pokéballs. This process was developed sometime between 400 and 700 years before the present day (between the burning of Brass Tower and the first Orange League competitions). Before Pokéballs became standardized, everyone used Pokéballs made this way. In the Hisui region (the Sinnoh region of the past), people craft Pokéballs using Brown Apricorns and Tumblestones. In the modern day, only specialists (such as Kurt) can make Pokéballs from Apricorns.

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. Trainers can blend Apricorns in an Apriblender to make Aprijuice for their Pokémon to drink.

## In the core series games

### Mechanics

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

Additionally, in Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, they can 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.

In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver only, 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 (a Key Item that functions like a pocket) instead of the Bag's Items pocket. However, a Pokémon caught in an Apricorn Pokéball can be traded to Pokémon Diamond, Pearl or Platinum, although the Pokémon's Pokéball will appear as a standard Pokéball in those games.

In Pokémon Sword and Shield, using the Expansion Pass the player can go to the Isle of Armor. Inside the dojo on the Isle of Armor, in Mustard's room, 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 Pokéball, which is determined by the combination of Apricorns put in.

In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, with the game taking place in the past, all Pokéballs are crafted from Brown Apricorns (simply referred to as Apricorns in the game). Variant Pokéballs can be constructed by using additional or alternative materials, but all Pokéballs use a Brown Apricorn.

### Acquisition

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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.

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.

In The Isle of Armor, Apricorns are obtained by shaking Berry Trees across the island or by exchanging Watts.

In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, 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.

## In the anime

Apricorns made their only major anime 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.

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

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

### Gallery

Black Apricorn anime.pngBlack ApricornsBlue Apricorn anime.pngA Blue ApricornGreen Apricorn anime.pngGreen ApricornsPink Apricorn anime.pngPink ApricornsRed Apricorn anime.pngRed ApricornsWhite Apricorn anime.pngA White ApricornYellow Apricorn anime.pngYellow Apricorns
## Trivia

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* In Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, Apricorns have different sprites for the Apricorn Case 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 the Japanese chestnut, known as にほんぐり (*nihonguri*), or from the acorn, どんぐり (*donguri*).