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 - Delicious

  30 Nov 2022  Steve B., 

  For the very best taste, let these hang on the tree until they start to form water core (around mid-Nov. where I live). The apple industry considers water core to be an overripening defect, but for the home grower it adds a wonderful winey perfume and sweetness. Nothing beats a Hawkeye Delicious riddled with pockets and streaks of water core. It's not actually water, it's alcohol...a little hard cider that Mother Nature infuses through the flesh for those who are patient. Heavenly!

• Apple - Jazz

  26 Nov 2022  Theresa Flannery, 

  Jazz is my favorite apple. It bakes tremendously well, and is a wonderful snack apple with tart complex notes under a bit of sweetness. It seems to have become rather rare during the Pandemic and I long to see it return to stores here in Colorado.

• Apple - Holiday

  26 Nov 2022  Laura, 

  At the orchard where I help out in Ohio, the apple pickers all really gave a thumbs-up to this apple!

• Apple - Empire

  22 Nov 2022  Danielle, 

  The Empire and the McIntosh apples are the only two variety of apples I’m not allergic to so I’m a huge fan and agree with the tasting notes. They’re sold in my local grocery store a few months of the year.

• Apple - Henry Clay

  21 Nov 2022  Jeannie, 

  Is this apple available in Wisconsin? Thank you

Latest harvest records from registered fruit trees

• 2nd week November 2022  Blenheim Orange owned by David in Nottingham, United Kingdom
• 2nd week October 2022  Honeycrisp owned by David in Two Rivers, United States
• 1st week October 2022  Sweet Sixteen owned by David in Two Rivers, United States
• 1st week October 2022  Snow Sweet owned by JSchreiber in West Concord, United States
• 1st week October 2022  Snow Sweet owned by JSchreiber in West Concord, United States

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