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Where did Navel Oranges come from?
In 1820, in a monastery garden in Bahia, Brazil, a hybrid of the Sweet Orange known as the Bahia Navel Orange was born. Brazil sent a dozen of these trees to the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington D.C. in 1870.
Mrs. Eliza Tibbetts of Riverside, CA wrote to the U.S.D.A. in 1873 asking for two of the new Navel oranges, never knowing that she would revolutionize the commercial Orange industry in California.
This new mutant bud stock called the Bahia Navel, was renamed the Riverside Navel, and then renamed again the Washington Navel after George Washington for a more national appeal. All new varieties of Navel Oranges can trace their roots back to the Washington Navel.
California Navel Oranges are seedless and larger than the Sweet Orange. Its thick, bright orange skin was easy to peel and protected it for shipping. The sweet, full-bodied sections made for an excellent eating orange.
― get bent, Monday, 21 April 2008 19:52 (seventeen years ago)
just what ilx needs, another navel-gazing thread
― dan m, Monday, 21 April 2008 19:54 (seventeen years ago)
someone told me about a blood orange martini they had the other night which i thought was such a great idea. is that a common thing? i had never had one and feel it might become my favorite drink ever
― Surmounter, Monday, 21 April 2008 20:08 (seventeen years ago)
my grandma worked in the orange packing houses back in the day and would bring home crates of these!
― carne asada, Monday, 21 April 2008 20:19 (seventeen years ago)
eleven months pass...
What happened this year, all the navels I had were shit.
― Jarlrmai, Wednesday, 1 April 2009 13:15 (sixteen years ago)