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 - Glockenapfel

  03 Apr 2020  Mathias,  NONE, Austria

  One of the best for applepie and cider production. Very rich flavour and mild , not to much sweetness. Goes well together with Boskoop. I really like this apple very much.

• Apple - Belle de Boskoop

  03 Apr 2020  Mathias,  NONE, Austria

  My grandmother and grandfather used it for making "Most" / the Austrian variant of cider. For this, the acidity of the Boskoop apple really is helpful. We also used and still use it as an an cooking apple. Very delicious applepie!

• Apple - Opal

  02 Apr 2020  Van Barnes,  TN, United States

  I was looking for new apple for snacking. The delicious apples are to hard for a small child to bite. I had been buying honeycrisps. I was in Kroger, when I noticed a new apple for sale. I purchased one opal apple to taste test. It was not hard like the delicious and the flavor was excellent. It is a sweet apple that children love. It is the only apple I buy.

• Apple - Red Astrachan

  29 Mar 2020  Gary Bletsch,  WASHINGTON, United States

  The Astrakhan variety of apple figures prominently in "The Emigrants" series of novels by Vilhelm Moberg. These books tell the story of farmers who emigrated to Minnesota from Sweden. The wife of the main character misses the apples, so her husband arranges for seeds to be sent to their farm from family in Sweden.

• Apple - Opal

  29 Mar 2020  c Medlin,  CA, United States

  I love this apple! I’ve never tasted anything like it before. Firstly it’s beautiful and almost glows yellow. It is both sweet and tart. The unusual thing for me is that it has flower-like overtones. I have never tasted that in an apple before.

Latest spring blossom records from registered fruit trees

• 26th March 2020  Plum - Denniston's Superb owned by Richard in York, United Kingdom

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