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If you are interested in apple varieties, pears, cherries or plums, or orchards where these fruits are grown, 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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Orchards

Listings for over 2,000 orchards in the United States, Canada, UK and elsewhere.

Tree register

Our Fruit tree register has details of more than 11,000 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.

Recent variety reviews

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  • Gage - Old Green Gage

    29 Aug 2025 
    This review is of a fruit picked from a tree that was sold as "Green Gage" from a wholesale nursery. I can only assume it is the "standard Green Gage" variety in the U.S. And keep in mind the fruit was picked from a very young tree, so it's likely the fruit quality may improve when the tree matures in the future. Smelling the skin, it has some exquisite plum aroma, moderately better than a supermarket plum. strong flavor of pluot and a little bit of nectarine. very slight grass flavor. in addition to that, there's something very "green" about the aroma (maybe with some similarity to Japanese ume plum). maybe just the tiniest bit of green wine grape flavor. I'd have to rate this somewhere between 84 and 94 out of 100. It's quite good and has some very unique "green plum" flavor, though that flavor could possibly be just a bit overwhelming if I had too many of these, and there's just a tiny hint of the intensity of nail polish remover mixed with freshly mown grass, kind of scrumptious and rich. The green flavor is a little more intense, and slightly harsher, than the Reine Claude Doree variety of Green Gage.

  • Apple - Red Delicious

    28 Aug 2025 
    I know there are a lot of haters but my red delicious is my best producer and most bug resilient tree. They are fine eating fresh as they have a very short edible life span. I'm a minority, but I love them fresh off the tree

  • Apple - Lane's Prince Albert

    27 Aug 2025 
    As a child, we had an apple tree that my father called Lane’s Prince Albert. I remember it as having shaped sides and it didn’t bruise easily. Everything else describes it perfectly. We stored it in the loft and loved it for eating at Christmas. I bought a tree named Lane’s but the fruit shape doesn’t seem like I remember.

  • Apple - Nittany

    22 Aug 2025 
    My favorite apple. I'm disappointed that I do not see much of them at our local Alexandria, Va farmer's market anymore

  • Apple - Keswick Codlin

    20 Aug 2025 
    All true. Plus, it’s the only variety in my garden that isn’t plundered by rats (I live in the country next to open fields.)

Latest harvest records from registered fruit trees

Register your own fruit trees and record blossom and harvest records in our Fruit Tree Register.