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

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Apple - Spartan
20 Oct 2024 Zhenya, CAMBRIDGE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE
We have this apple tree in our garden and it is the BEST apple I've ever eaten, so crispy, juicy and delicious! 🍎 Incredible.
Apple - Yarlington Mill
19 Oct 2024 Rh, RIVER CITY
As an alternative to hard cidre, try producing a soft cidre blend instead [w/store-bought apples, if you've no other home-grown options]...
Apple - Ashmead's Kernel
19 Oct 2024 Ari, GLENS FALLS, NY
The best apple I've ever had (so far?) Amazing crisp crunch, rather thin, flavorful skin for a russet. The taste is superb - a subtle tart with a bold but mild sweet. I wish I had the right words. Just so good.
Apple - King of the Pippins
17 Oct 2024 Juanita Baker, CLIO, MI
I would like to know the size of this pippin. The ones I used to be able to get were all very large.
Apple - Fortune
17 Oct 2024 Bob, Stanwood, WA
In Puget Sound marine climate. Disease central. Unusual var. - 4yrs and no scab or canker. Fruit is medium to large. Well balanced. Juicy. Great no spray multipurpose apple. This is the American "Fortune" orig. on the East coast. Not the European "Laxton's Fortune". Rec. and purchased from Skipley farm in Snohomish. WA.

Latest harvest records from registered fruit trees

2nd week October 2024 Fiesta owned by Richard in York, United Kingdom
3rd week August 2024 Bramley's Seedling owned by Richard in Objat, France
3rd week August 2024 Red Windsor owned by Richard in Objat, France