Navel oranges.
^ this is a navel orange.
They are a seedless fruit (which sparks the debate whether they are classed as a fruit or not but whatever it's just pretentious to question it imo) which are also very sweet.
Their name refers to the undeveloped 'twin' fruit on the opposite of stem end - resembling a navel.
The interesting thing about these FRUITS (>.<) is they are a product of a biological sport (spontaneous mutation occuring in plants), which happened on one single branch of a normal orange tree; 200 years ago in a Brazilian Monastery.
As they have no seeds, it is difficult for these to reproduce normally, so they are grown through a horticultural technique (branch of agriculture concerned in growing plants for food or medicinal use) known as grafting. This process is where 2 or more plants (of the same genus) are fused together by merging rootstock of one end of a plant and a young shoot/twig (scion) of another. Interestingly, this process inspired easrly skin grafting techniques and scientsists say it had been used by China before 2000BC.
Going off tangent (but will link to next post) grafting is often usedto save crops from diseases. For example, this process protects banana's from the disease Tropical race 4 often referred to as the 'banana epidemic' - this is extremely beneficial due to the significance of bananas.
Well my lack on consistency is definitely showing as i post this two weeks late...this was originally going to be a four sentence post lol but I got trapped in a rabbit hole.
I think next weeks post will be a personal favourite because i find it the funniest.
If you want to read further on this topic I will link the websites I used below :)
and the 'World economic forum' (the link wouldn't post :()
