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All about apples, pears, plums, and cherries - tasting notes and identification.

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If you are interested in apple varieties, pears, cherries or plums 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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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 - Daliclass

    14 Mar 2026  I buy a bag of 'generic' Lidl apples every week. They now pop the category name on what is ordinarily called 'bicolour apples'. Came across Daliclass last week - just eating the last one now. For me the best of Braeburn and Cripps Red.

  • Apple - Red Prince

    11 Mar 2026  There are two Jonaprince apple trees in our 500+ tree orchard. Last year was their first to bear. Absentmindedly, I took a bite of one. Suddenly the world stopped ! ! ! I was gobsmacked ! . . . as you know, there are wonderful Ashmead's Kernels, fabulous Zabergau Reinettes, priceless Northern Spy apples, people beat a path to my Esopus Spitzenberg trees, and in a drought Ozark Gold (albeit, nothing in rainy weather) is fabulous . . . but Jonaprince ! Maybe it was because it was straight from the tree, but . . . this year one of my rows of Ozark Golds are going to be top worked, and in a few years with luck there will be under-recognized fabulous highly flavored fabulous Jonaprince apples on one side of these yellow apple trees.

  • Apple - Junami

    10 Mar 2026  Best apple ever. Got it at price chopper grocery store in Northeastern part of USA in 2016. Been trying to find these anywhere in the USA ever since. Ranier Fruit in Washington state USA is not a distributor anymore. If anyone knows where they can be bought shipped to I'd be very grateful. Anyone can post to social media site reddit to its apples message board with information thank you.

  • Apple - Belle de Boskoop

    21 Feb 2026  My Belle de Boskoop doesn’t keep its shape when cooked, but just like a Bramley, moshes down beautifully. It is a delicious apple and I love its sweet acidity straight from the tree, when it is still crunchy.

  • Apple - Cortland

    20 Feb 2026  It's a red apple thats really white inside and it's very sweet!