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All about apples, pears, plums, and cherries - and orchards where they are grown

Welcome to Orange Pippin

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

You can add your own comments on any variety page.

  • We bought a Lane's Prince Albert from RV Roger in late 2023. Per instructions, we didn't let it fruit in 2024. In 2025 it had 7 beautiful large, delicious fruit. I baked one in a pie yesterday - superb flavour!

  • Apple - Cameo

    20 Jan 2026 
    Wonderful texture and a very nice, balanced flavour and taste profile, decent sharpness and a matched sweetness; I prefer a slightly sweeter (and sharper) apple. I found they had a notable fresh pineapple note which I appreciate. Consistently crisp and easy to eat. not the most attractive outwardly, slightly dull appearance.

  • Apple - Chantecler

    16 Jan 2026 
    Love the soft texture and light sweetness which I don't find anywhere else

  • Apple - Suntan

    11 Jan 2026 
    Lovely balanced flavour. M26 is badly affected by aphid on one year old growth, fruits and leaves, whereas M25 grafted from it has none of these issues.

  • Apple - Red Prince

    03 Jan 2026 
    A new one to me: I came across them in early January at a Co-op in Gairloch in Scotland (look it up if you don't know it - not quite where you'd expect unusual apple varieties!). As far as eating goes, I don't have much to add to the post on 14 March 2021. I picked up the fragrance that some others have mentioned in two of the four apples in the packet.