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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 - Lobo

    25 May 2025 
    I bought a few from a Polish-owned shop in early spring 2025, just to try. I've never seen it in UK small shops or supermarkets. I'd say it has a very good flavour. Either as good as or nearly as nice as Braeburn, which also keeps late. The challenge now is to find a tree of it in the UK on M9 or M26 rootstock to complement my trees of other very late apples.

  • Apple - Ashmead's Kernel

    24 May 2025 
    This is one of my top five apples. It has a big flavor! And it makes great sauce which tastes like it must have cinnamon or nutmeg in it.

  • Apple - Jonagold

    23 May 2025 
    I bought a young tree here in Wales probably ten years ago. Has always cropped well, with large apples. I really enjoy the taste. In last 2-3 years it became susceptible to codling moth but I'm using traps this year, so hopefully back to excellent apples.

  • Apple - Smitten

    19 May 2025 
    Sweet and crispy..Best eating apple ever

  • Apple - Duchess of Oldenburg

    12 May 2025 
    We have a big old Duchess of Oldenburg tree at our cabin in Maine. Our apples tend to be small and don't look very pretty. They are too tart to eat from hand. Put them in a pot and apply heat, and some spice, and you get a miraculous transformation. The aroma and taste of the cooked apples is outstanding. They are truly a perfect sauce apple. They cook down quickly. I also use them for a chutney recipe, which is also a big hit. I tried making cider out of them and after two years maturing the cider is good, but still very tart. Next time I'm going to mix them 50/50 with a sweeter apple. For pies, I would mix them with a firm fleshed apple like Cortland or Macoun, then you will get a fabulous pie. The key fact about this apple is that is is super sharp but extremely tasty. If you are used to very bland commercial apples this one will blow you away.

Latest spring blossom records from registered fruit trees

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