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[[File:Apricorn.png|thumb|230px|The seven Apricorns]]
'''Apricorns''' (Japanese: '''ぼんぐりのみ''' ''Bonguri Fruit'') are fruits native to the [[Johto]] region that can be used to make [[Poké Ball]]s. They can also be found in the [[Kanto]] region in {{game|HeartGold and SoulSilver|s}} and on [[Galar]]'s [[Isle of Armor]] in {{g|Sword and Shield}}'s [[The Isle of Armor]] expansion.

Specialists can hollow out Apricorns and fit them with special devices to allow them to function as Poké Balls. [[Kurt]] is one such specialist. Before [[History of Poké Balls|Poké Balls became standardized]], everyone used hollowed-out Apricorns to catch Pokémon. The process used to create the Poké Balls was developed sometime between 400 and 700 years<!--Between the burning of Brass Tower and first Orange League competitions--> before the present day.

Because the outer skin of Apricorns are so tough, they cannot be eaten by Pokémon unprocessed. Instead, Trainers can blend Apricorns in an [[Apriblender]] to make Aprijuice for their Pokémon to drink.

==List of Apricorns==
{| class="roundtable" style="background: #{{Apricorn color light}}; border:3px solid #{{Apricorn color dark}}"
! 
! Name
! colspan=2 | Corresponding<br>Poké Ball
! Corresponding<br>performance stat(s)
|-
|{{bag3|Black Apricorn}}
|[[Black Apricorn]]
|{{bag3|Heavy Ball}}
|[[Heavy Ball]]
| style="text-align:center; background:#000"|<span style="color:#FFF">All</span>
|-
|{{bag3|Blue Apricorn}}
|[[Blue Apricorn]]
|{{bag3|Lure Ball}}
|[[Lure Ball]]
| style="text-align:center; background:#{{Skill color}}"|[[Performance#Skill|<span style="color:#FFF">Skill</span>]]
|-
|{{bag3|Green Apricorn}}
|[[Green Apricorn]]
|{{bag3|Friend Ball}}
|[[Friend Ball]]
| style="text-align:center; background:#{{Jump color}}"|[[Performance#Jump|<span style="color:#FFF">Jump</span>]]
|-
|{{bag3|Pink Apricorn}}
|[[Pink Apricorn]]
|{{bag3|Love Ball}}
|[[Love Ball]]
| style="text-align:center; background:#{{Speed color}}"|[[Performance#Speed|<span style="color:#FFF">Speed</span>]]
|-
|{{bag3|Red Apricorn}}
|[[Red Apricorn]]
|{{bag3|Level Ball}}
|[[Level Ball]]
| style="text-align:center; background:#{{Power color}}"|[[Performance#Speed|<span style="color:#FFF">Power</span>]]
|-
|{{bag3|White Apricorn}}
|[[White Apricorn]]
|{{bag3|Fast Ball}}
|[[Fast Ball]]
| style="text-align:center; background:#000"|<span style="color:#FFF">None</span>
|-
|{{bag3|Yellow Apricorn}}
|[[Yellow Apricorn]]
|{{bag3|Moon Ball}}
|[[Moon Ball]]
| style="text-align:center; background:#{{Stamina color}}"|[[Performance#Stamina|<span style="color:#FFF">Stamina</span>]]
|}

==In the core series games==
===Mechanics===
[[File:Apricorn Box.png|thumb|150px|The Apricorn Box]]
Apricorns can be turned into Apricorn Poké Balls. In Pokémon Gold, Silver, Crystal, HeartGold, and SoulSilver, the player can given Apricorns to [[Kurt]] in [[Azalea Town]], who will have turned them into Poké Balls by the next day. In Pokémon 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.

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 {{game2|Diamond|Pearl|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 Poké Ball can be traded to Pokémon Diamond, Pearl or Platinum, although the Pokémon's Poké Ball will appear as a standard {{i|Poké Ball}} in those games.

===Acquisition===
[[File:Route 37 Apricorns II.png|thumb|left|200px|The group of Apricorn trees on {{rt|37|Johto}} in Generation II]]
[[File:Route 37 Apricorns IV.png|thumb|right|200px|The group of Apricorn trees on {{rt|37|Johto}} in Generation IV]]
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 [[Route]]s {{rtn|37|Johto}} and {{rtn|42|Johto}} and in [[Azalea Town]].

In {{game|HeartGold and SoulSilver|s}}, 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 Apricorn]]s are by far the most common, appearing in eight places; while [[White Apricorn|White]] and [[Red Apricorn]]s are the least common, each only appearing in three places.

[[The Isle of Armor]] Apricorns are obtained by shaking Berry Trees or exchanging [[Watts]].
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==In spin-off games==
===Pokémon Quest===
[[File:Quest Apricorn.png|thumb|100px|An Apricorn in Pokémon Quest]]
An Apricorn is an ingredient that can be used in {{OBP|cooking|Quest}} to attract wild Pokémon in [[Pokémon Quest]].

====Description====
{{movedesc|Apricorn}}
{{movedescentry|{{gameabbrevss|Quest}}|Hard and small ingredients.}}
|}
|}

====Acquisition====
Apricorn is a possible ingredient that can be obtained by completing [[Tumblecube Island|expeditions]]. It can also be obtained randomly by recycling [[Power Stone]]s.

==In the anime==
Apricorns made their only major {{pkmn|anime}} appearance in ''[[EP143|Going Apricorn!]]''. After [[Kurt]] had given {{Ash}}, {{an|Misty}}, and {{an|Brock}} a [[Fast Ball]] each, made from [[White Apricorn]]s growing next to his house, he sent them to collect other Apricorns with [[Maizie]]. After several failed attempts at picking Apricorns, {{ashfr|the group}} managed to pick two [[Blue Apricorn]]s and a [[Black Apricorn]], which Kurt used to make a pair of [[Lure Ball]]s and a [[Heavy Ball]] for them, which they obtained shortly before leaving [[Azalea Town]] in the [[EP144|next episode]].

In ''[[DP143|An Egg Scramble!]]'', [[Yellow Apricorn]]s were one of the things [[Khoury]] was selling at the [[Johto Festival]].

===Gallery===
<gallery>
Blk Apricorn anime.png|A Black Apricorn
Blu Apricorn anime.png|A Blue Apricorn
Grn Apricorn anime.png|Green Apricorns
Pnk Apricorn anime.png|A Pink Apricorn
Red Apricorn anime.png|Red Apricorns
Wht Apricorn anime.png|A White Apricorn
Ylw Apricorn anime.png|Yellow Apricorns
</gallery>

==In the manga==
[[File:Apricorn Adventures.png|thumb|230px|An Apricorn in Pokémon Adventures]]
===In the Pokémon Adventures manga===
Apricorns were first seen in ''[[PS101|Teddiursa's Picnic]]'', where [[Kurt]]'s ability to turn them into special Poké Balls was demonstrated. {{adv|Gold}}, unaware of Apricorns' true purpose, attempted and failed to eat one from a tree.

In ''[[PS154|Yikes, It's Yanma!]]'', an Apricorn lottery was used to randomly decide which pairs of [[Gym Leader]]s from [[Kanto]] and [[Johto]] would face each other in an interregional {{wp|exhibition game|exhibition match}} at [[Indigo Plateau]]. [[Erika]] and [[Pryce]], due to their statuses as the leaders of their respective [[region]]'s Gym Leaders, were automatically selected to battle each other.

In ''[[PS442|Out-Odding Oddish]]'', Gold was seen running around the [[Pokéathlon Dome]] to make Aprijuice out of Apricorns with his [[Apriblender]].

====Gallery====
<gallery>
Blu Apricorn Adventures.png|A Blue Apricorn
Red Apricorn Adventures.png|A Red Apricorn
Wht Apricorn Adventures.png|A White Apricorn
Ylw Apricorn Adventures.png|A Yellow Apricorn
</gallery>

==Name origin==
The word Apricorn may be a combination of "{{wp|apricot}}" and "{{wp|acorn}}".

''Bonguri'' may come from the {{wp|Castanea crenata|Japanese chestnut}}, known as にほんぐり (''nihonguri''), or from the {{wp|acorn}}, どんぐり (''donguri'').

==Trivia==
[[File:Apricorn respawn.png|thumb|[[Green Apricorn|Grn Apricorn]]'s tree on {{rt|30|Johto}} respawning at midnight]]
* 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]].
* In the anime, possibly as a coloring error, [[Black Apricorn]]s were portrayed as being brown-colored.
* 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 [[Time|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.

==In other languages==
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|zh_yue=球果 ''{{tt|Kàuhgwó|Cone}}'' {{tt|*|Games}}
|zh_cmn=球果 ''{{tt|Qiúguǒ|Cone}}'' {{tt|*|Games}}<br>圓柑果實 / 圆柑果实 ''{{tt|Yuángān Guǒshí|Round Tangerine}}'' {{tt|*|Anime, Adventures}}
|cs=Meruňák
|nl=Abrikhorn
|fr=Noigrume
|de=Aprikoko
|he=אפריקורן ''Apricorn''
|hi=अॅप्रीकॉर्न ''Apricorn''
|it=Ghicocche
|ko=규토리 ''Gyutoli''
|pl=Apricorn
|pt_br=Bolota
|pt_eu=Apricorn
|ro=Apricorn
|es_la=Apricorn
|es_eu=Bonguri
|vi=Trái Bonguri
}}
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