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
You can add your own comments on any variety page.
Apple - Golden Delicious
30 Mar 2024 Eyes, NA, NAI dont like any of the "delicious" varieties it seems. Terrible texture, Ugly shape, Mild taste. LONG LIVE THE HONEYCRISP (although sometimes too sweet so the search continues lol)Apple - Jazz
26 Mar 2024 Michael Bowen, REDDITCH, WORCESTERSHIRESome packs are excellent other packs a poorApple - Northern Greening
19 Mar 2024 Royce Hamer, FREELTON ON, ONIf you have never had a apple pie made from a GREENING you are missing one if not the best. This is an old variety and difficult to find these days.Apple - Junami
19 Mar 2024 DafyddThis apple is excellent with a sweet crisp taste and nice crunch . I certainly enjoyed this more than a pink lady apple. I haven't seen this on sale much in the UK mine was from Tesco finest range and grown in beautiful Dorset. I will definitely buy more.Apple - Elise
14 Mar 2024 Robert Hunter, DUMBARTON, WEST DUNBARTONSHIREExcellent taste, so juicy
Latest spring blossom records from registered fruit trees
- 26th March 2024 Plum - Denniston's Superb owned by Richard in York, United Kingdom
- 24th March 2024 Flowering cherry - Ichiyo owned by Richard in Objat, France
- 23rd March 2024 Crab-apple - Purpurea Evelyn owned by Richard in Objat, France
- 22nd March 2024 Peach / Nectarine - Rochester owned by Richard in Objat, France
- 22nd March 2024 Flowering cherry - Tai-haku owned by Richard in Objat, France
Find out how to record your blossom dates in our Fruit Tree Register.