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.Advanced search
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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
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Apple - Pink Lady
06 Jul 2024 Derek Brooks, WINNIPEG, MANITOBAExcellent apple . Plus you get two or three seeds that have already germinated . Bonus .Apple - Morgan Sweet
18 Jun 2024 Anne Kidman, USK, NEWPORTI was brought up in Bristol and we had a Morgan Sweet tree in an orchard across the road I am 83 now but still remember that sweet juice running down our cheeks as we bit into it It was well worth the danger of being caught scrumping ……Apple - Evelina
18 Jun 2024 Rajwinder Singh, MUKTSAR, PUNJABVery bad tasteApple - Stayman
07 Jun 2024 Dmm Simonton, NATCHEZ, MISS.Once, when driving the backroads of central Virginia, I saw, and stopped at, a large pavilion full of apples for sale. I tried one, and it was amazingly good, like a combination of a Granny Smith (crisp, tart) and a sweet variety like Honeycrisp. I asked the name and was told "Stark Stayman". I now realize that the "Stark" part was the apple's origin, and Stayman the variety. I was told they were at their peak just in the few days when they began to "turn" color. I will return one day to that place.Apple - Envy
03 Jun 2024 Sue Grant, CENTENARY HEIGHTS TOOWOOMBA, QUEENSLANDLovely and crisp, very sweet. Cox's orange pippin heritage?