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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.

  • Apple - Sunset

    17 May 2024 
    Bought a tree a few years ago. Didn’t produce a good crop last year. But this year masses of blossom.

  • Apple - Smitten

    14 May 2024 
    The good: crispy, juicy. The bad: flesh is too hard to chew. Taste is no better than average. Overall, I do not recommend.

  • Apple - Karmijn de Sonnaville

    07 May 2024 
    Cracked prone. added calcium to the soil and much better good rich flavor, great apple sauce

  • Apple - Cinnamon Spice

    07 May 2024 
    We found this near Dogtown distinctive cinnamon flavor fresh off the tree. would dissipate after a short while.

  • Apple - Queen Cox

    06 May 2024 
    We now have three Queen Cox trees in our yard in the coastal Pacific Northwest of the USA. They produce flavorful, wonderful, consistent apples.

Latest spring blossom records from registered fruit trees

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