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Tasting notes and identification advice for apples, pears, plums, cherries and other orchard varieties.

Welcome to Orange Pippin

If you are interested in apple varieties, pears, cherries or plums you have come to the right place.

Fruit tree varieties

Descriptions of over 700 apple and cider apple varieties, as well as crab-apples, pears, plums, fruiting cherries and ornamental cherries, apricots, and peaches and nectarines.

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Tree register

Our Fruit tree register has details of 17,221 fruit trees registered by their owners, including blossom and harvest records.

Our website is named after England's most famous apple variety - Cox's Orange Pippin - widely regarded as the finest of all dessert apples. 'Pippin' is an old English word derived from the French word for 'seedling', and like many old apple varieties Cox's Orange Pippin was discovered as a chance seedling.

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The Pippin Society

We are proud to be associated with the Pippin Society, an initiative led by Karim Habibi of Keepers Nursery in the UK. This is a new (2026) grass-roots movement which aims to re-ignite interest among amateur gardeners in breeding new fruit varieties from seed, focussing on flavor.

Recent variety reviews

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  • Apple - Wealthy

    10 May 2026  A sweet late season apple totally reliable in zone 3 Minnesota. It earns a 5 just for its hardiness alone but the juice can be phenomenally tasty and the high sugar content can yield a very effervescent natural fresh cider after only three days of fermentation. There is enough sorbitol in this apple that its vinegar is surprisingly mild with a touch of sweetness that is completely unexpected and almost like balsamic. A very late season pressing after 3 hard frosts gave a slightly rose colored juice which made a preferred hard cider. For cold zones its a solid 5

  • Apple - Topaz

    28 Apr 2026  Poor

  • Apple - Cox's Orange Pippin

    26 Apr 2026  I love the Cox apple. Always have done. So given that over the past few weeks i have been buying , what are sold as Cox apples.....from Sainsbury's Supermarket. They are definitely not a Cox. How can this be when they are sold as such?

  • Apple - Freyberg

    23 Apr 2026  I grow this apple and it's way better than your meh review. It has a very distinctive taste, nutty and lemony.

  • Apple - Laxton's Superb

    20 Apr 2026  Easily my favourite apple. It lives up to its name and tastes superb. However, it is a biennial bearer, so it will usually only produce a crop every other year. It's still worth the wait, though

Latest spring blossom records from registered fruit trees

Find out how to record your blossom dates in our Fruit Tree Register.

Latest fruit tree registrations

There are currently 17,221 trees registered in our Tree Register. Add your trees here.