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sunshine you can hold, evolved to bribe animals into spreading its seeds
means A group of juicy, tart-to-sweet fruits — oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruits and kin — borne on thorny evergreen trees and shrubs, prized for their fragrant, vitamin-rich flesh and peel.
from Straight from Latin citrus, the Romans' name for the citron tree and its fragrant wood. The word may be linked to the Greek kedros (cedar), since both yielded aromatic timber that prickled the same part of the nose. The citron, native to Asia, was the first of this clan to reach the Mediterranean world — and lent its old name to the whole sun-bright family that followed.
- all hybrids
- most citrus descends from just three wild ancestors
- scurvy slayer
- British sailors got the nickname limeys for it
- never wild
- the orange doesn't exist naturally, it was bred
- buddha's hand
- a citrus that grows into eerie finger clusters
- sour spectrum
- flavors range from honey-sweet to face-puckering acid
florida citrus crisis — citrus greening disease devastated florida's orange production from 2005 onward, reducing output by 75% by 2020
seville orange trees — bitter oranges planted throughout seville, spain since the 12th century, now iconic to the city's 15,000+ trees
jaffa oranges — sweet oranges from jaffa, palestine/israel since the 1850s, became a global trademark citrus variety
valencia oranges — originated in valencia, spain in the 15th century, now the world's most cultivated orange variety