Persimmon is an orange, tomato-shaped fruit that has a sweet taste similar to a cantaloupe. Often growing on smaller trees, ...

As History Facts explained, you can trace the fruit's beginnings back to the Himalayas some 8 million years ago. From there, orange trees sprouted up through the Indian subcontinent and China.

The use of orange as the specific description for a colour is thought to have begun in the 1500s when the fruit began to regularly appear on English market stalls.

In 2012, reader Erica wrote in with a question about oranges. Is the fruit named for its color, or is the color named for the fruit? The answer to this question is actually pretty simple: Orange ...

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But as Katie Goh unravels in Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange, underneath its pitted skin, the orange contains multitudes. "Citrus is fruit that freely betrays," Goh writes.

3 ways to get an apricot tree to fruit. Apricot trees will start to fruit between the age of two to four. So, if you have a ...

I n season from December to April, blood oranges are distinguished by their deep red centers and blushed skin. A little smaller than navel oranges, they're fragrant and less acidic than other ...

Who knew that marketing could sell me oranges? I picked up a bag of Cuties oranges recently and we have been enjoying the easy-peel seedless wonders immensely. Then I run across Smithsonian ...

The Jaffa orange, which originated in the 19th century, gained prominence for its sweetness and thick, easy-to-peel skin, which made it well-suited for shipping.