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.

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 - Red Prince

  03 Jan 2026  Nick, STIRLING

  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.

• Apple - Jazz

  31 Dec 2025  Georgina Jamieson, TENNYSON, QLD

  I've always loved jazz apples above all others but over the past couple of years I can't eat the fruit supplied by my specialist green grocer in Brisbane. Although they look perfect in every way both inside and out and have the usual juicy hard crunch that I love, the flesh is so bitter in some cases it's totally inedible.

• Apple - Cosmic Crisp

  11 Dec 2025  Alec, BERWICK, IL

  I have eaten quite a few Cosmic Crisps this fall (along with a number of other varieties). For the 2025 crop, Cosmic Crisp is my first choice. I only had one that I suspect was an older crop and had some flavor issues. Otherwise, I have been really impressed with the sweet flavor and consistency (I have not been a huge fan of some other sweet varieties). The crunch and appearance on all I have had has also been great. It would not surprise me if this is a top three apple or the top apple in a few years. From reading, it seems like a great variety to grow/store/distribute and has been pretty consistently under Honeycrisp prices in the stores I have visited.

• Apple - Enterprise

  26 Oct 2025  Dave Wennlund, READSTOWN, WI.

  Not good for mid October eating.

• Apple - Sundance

  22 Oct 2025  David, NORTHEAST, ALABAMA

  We have 100 Sundance trees in their 9th leaf. Sundance is a vigorous tree and heavy producer with excellent disease resistance, including very low incidence of bitter rot in my orchard. The texture is phenomenal, breaking and crisp like a Honeycrisp, and the skin is not thick in my experience. The taste is more tart than sweet with lemon/citrus like aromatic flavors. Ripen time is the same as Cripps Pink Lady and my customers have a strong preference for it. It is like a vastly improved Granny Smith replacer. The only negative to this apple is the tendency for a large crown russet and general russeting in the body of the apple. Overall Sundance is a very good apple, an easy tree to grow, and I plan to plant more.