Apricot trees, fruits look black normal?

When I bought my house 7 years ago I planted an apricot tree. It gives loads of fruits, but always they look black and horrid and we do not attempt to eat them.

Is this normal? Once it did look a bit sick, but it grows very well now.

I have only ever eaten dried apricots so no idea when the fresh ones look like!

 

I've got an apricot tree that fruits very well. The fruits are ready early June (or thereabouts depending on the year). I find the only snag to this very productive fruit is that a full trees-worth comes ready all at once, and has to be dealt with there and then or they drop and/or rot. Could it just be that you are just missing the moment? I have indeed seen a few shriveled-up fruits that are "black and horrid" left on the tree after the fruiting season is over. A normal ripe apricot is orange going on red, lusciously juicy (almost going liquid if over ripe) and very sweet and fragrant.