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All about apples, pears, plums, and cherries - and orchards where they are grown

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.

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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

You can add your own comments on any variety page.

  • Apple - Fiesta

    11 Apr 2025 
    crops heavily good taste superior to cox orange pippin

  • Apple - Cosmic Crisp

    07 Apr 2025 
    Brought from our local supermarket as a rather pricy premium variety. I liked this apple, juicy and fresh. Wouldn't seek it out again specifically but it was nice enough. My teen son though had half and said it tasted bitter and left a nasty after taste in his mouth. He specifically asked what they were called then said can I remember not to get them again.

  • Apple - Honeycrisp

    24 Mar 2025 
    I love the honey crisp because of its tangy flavour _ none of the descriptions I have read about this apple describe that aspect which I find weird!

  • Apple - Egremont Russet

    08 Mar 2025 
    the best apple of all time. i eat nothing else. sadly other than off my tree they invariable have a pointless plastic label on the skin. STOP DOING THIS.

  • Apple - Tydeman's Early Worcester

    02 Mar 2025 
    My thirty year old tree is the most productive apple tree I have of ten, easy and healthy to grow. Unfortunately what isn't eaten from the tree by mid September are lost; like all earlys the flavour rapidly deteriorates, they won't even keep 48hours in the house before going soft and tasteless, however as the first apples of the year they are eagerly anticipated to eat on late august mornings when crunchy and quite flavoursome. It is saddening that I only need one a day x 14 days x 4 people at most 50, not 150, before other trees start to bear, and my attention is diverted.

Latest spring blossom records from registered fruit trees

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