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

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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.
Apple - Fameuse
21 Oct 2025 Emily r, LENOX, MA
Such a beautiful apple, whose name and coloring make me think of Snow White. I have only had this delicate, fine-grained apple a few times—found it at a market that stocked several heirloom varieties some years ago. In addition to enjoying it fresh, it made the whitest, fluffiest, most delicious apple sauce I’ve ever eaten. Wish I could find a nearby orchard that grows them.
Apple - Lord Hindlip
15 Oct 2025 David
Eaten in Oct - flavour subdued and a little watery but nonetheless refreshing. Would like to taste again Jan
Cherry - Parkhill
12 Oct 2025 Thomas Parkhill, RICHLAND, WA
This was a seedling sport discovered by my father Russell Parkhill in our cherry orchard in East Wenatchee, WA in about the 1940s. It was promoted for a while by the local Wenatchee Fruit Tree growers, but apparently fell out of favor. A commercial grower south of San Jose, Ca, was able to find some stock in Wenatchee after I posted this information on the fruit tree finders web site in about 1995. He propagated it for resale since it had a very high reputation for color and taste.

Latest harvest records from registered fruit trees

2nd week October 2025 Golden Delicious owned by James in Westport, Ireland
1st week October 2025 Sweet Sixteen owned by David in Two Rivers, United States
2nd week September 2025 Catshead owned by Ken in Minstead, United Kingdom
4th week August 2025 Claygate Pearmain owned by deadbird in Epsom, United Kingdom
4th week August 2025 Claygate Pearmain owned by deadbird in Epsom, United Kingdom