"Typified by the oranges and lemons, these form a distinctive group of tropical and subtropical fruits, They are mostly natives of southeastern Asia, but were brought to the Mediterranean by the Arabs, and to the New World first by Columbus.
The most important citrus fruits are the sweet orange, the sour or Seville orange, the lime, the citron, the lemon, the mandarin orange, the pummelo or shaddock with its American offspring the grapefruit, and the small ornamental kumquats. There are many varieties of all these hybrids. Valencias and Washington navel oranges are the chief varieties of the sweet orange. Tangerines, including Satsumas, are varieties fingered citron and Etrog, the latter used by the Jews in the Feast of Tabernacles.
All of these have a substantial rind, dotted with oil glands. The pulp of the segments consists of a mass of thickened, elongate cells filled with fragrant juice. Rutaceae family." Dahlgren
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| Left, grapefruits unpainted. Right, both grapefruits and navel oranges are common to markets in the United States and the Hawaiian Islands. |
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