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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 - Golden Delicious

    06 May 2025 
    very informative about the apple variesties.I am wondering if this you are talking about is old kind big tree type or high denesity ones.

  • Apple - Cox's Orange Pippin

    18 Apr 2025 
    My favourite apple since a child, when my grandparents grew some along with Bradley’s, conference pears, gooseberries and other soft fruits. I look for these apples in normal supermarkets and never see them. My memory is of a juicy, sharp and sweet apple, incomparable to what’s generally on offer. I had not thought of growing my own, and probably have left it a bit late.

  • Apple - Fiesta

    11 Apr 2025 
    crops heavily good taste superior to cox orange pippin

  • Apple - Cosmic Crisp

    07 Apr 2025 
    Brought from our local supermarket as a rather pricy premium variety. I liked this apple, juicy and fresh. Wouldn't seek it out again specifically but it was nice enough. My teen son though had half and said it tasted bitter and left a nasty after taste in his mouth. He specifically asked what they were called then said can I remember not to get them again.

  • Apple - Honeycrisp

    24 Mar 2025 
    I love the honey crisp because of its tangy flavour _ none of the descriptions I have read about this apple describe that aspect which I find weird!

Latest spring blossom records from registered fruit trees

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