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 - Honeycrisp
31 May 2024 Carl, LAWRENCE, KSFlavorless.... Moist and crunchy thoughApple - Ashmead's Kernel
31 May 2024 Jennie Baker, MONROE, MEMy very favorite apple. I think it's blushed russet skin is lovelier than the over shiny modern varieties. I grew one when I lived in England. Also love Cox's Orange Pippen and Ribston Pippen.Apple - Ingrid Marie
24 May 2024 JellfernI have one and I think it is delicious. It's late flowering and picked late (october)Apple - Anna
20 May 2024 Anton, OCEANSIDE, CALIFORNIAWe live in San Diego and have had the tree for four years and this year is the first time I will be able to bake applesApple - Sunset
17 May 2024 Chris Bailey, PENZANCE, ENGLANDBought a tree a few years ago. Didn’t produce a good crop last year. But this year masses of blossom.
Latest spring blossom records from registered fruit trees
- 18th April 2024 Apple - Fiesta owned by Richard in York, United Kingdom
- 18th April 2024 Apple - Kidd's Orange Red owned by Richard in York, United Kingdom
- 16th April 2024 Apple - Elstar owned by Richard in York, United Kingdom
- 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
Find out how to record your blossom dates in our Fruit Tree Register.