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 - Jonamac

  15 Nov 2019  Amanda L.,  NY, United States

  My family bought a pound of jonamacs from a tiny fruit stand in Pennsylvania on a road trip. The farmer recommended them and we took a chance. They were the best apples we had ever tasted! We still talk about the bunch of apples to this day.

• Apple - Zuccalmaglio's Reinette

  14 Nov 2019  Pamela,  NJ, United States

  Description was correct! Tastes remarkably like strawberry and pineapple! Crisp, juicy, firm but thin skin, although mine wasn't sticky. Very surprising and very good.

• Apple - Pacific Rose™

  08 Nov 2019  Samuel,  GA, United States

  Excellent flavor. Fairly thick skin, but not "waxy" like a red delicious. 8/10

• Apple - Katy

  08 Nov 2019  Bill Taylor,  LANCASHIRE, United Kingdom

  Usually good cropper. Very attractive - often wins prizes in our village show! Good flavour especially when flesh has gone pink. Sadly does not keep well.

• Apple - Ashmead's Kernel

  08 Nov 2019  Bill Taylor,  LANCASHIRE, United Kingdom

  I think the Description is a little unkind re looks, but bang on re the flavour. Planted a tree on my allotment 5 years age, had nothing for first 3 years, a few last year and literally hundreds this year. Picked some in late September when other varieties were ready, but these clearly were not- but I've stored them for cooking. Its now early November and the dozens remaining have turned redder. I've been trying one a week and they just get better, so now we are in to frosts I'm planning to pick the rest and hopefully they will store well into the new year. They are crisp, juicy and do have something aromatic (pear drops isn't quite it) when they are riper. Flavours may develop in storage.

Latest harvest records from registered fruit trees

• 2nd week November 2019  Ashmead's Kernel owned by Bill in Chorley, United Kingdom
• 2nd week November 2019  Hoople's Antique Gold owned by Jerry in Point Reyes Station, United States
• 1st week November 2019  Doctor Matthews owned by Jerry in Point Reyes Station, United States
• 1st week November 2019  Brushy Mountain Limbertwig owned by Jerry in Point Reyes Station, United States
• 1st week November 2019  Hall apple owned by Jerry in Point Reyes Station, United States

Register your own fruit trees and record blossom and harvest records in our Fruit Tree Register.