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The bitter orange, sour orange, Seville orange, bigarade orange, or marmalade orange is the hybrid citrus tree species Citrus × aurantium, and its fruit. It is native to Southeast Asia and has been spread by humans to many parts of the world.
The daidai (Japanese: 橙, 臭 橙; Chinese: 酸 橙; Korean: 광귤, gwanggyul) is a variety of bitter orange native to Asian regions. The daidai originated in the Himalayas. It spread to the Yangtze valley region and later to Japan. The colour of the fruit loses its yellowish hue and becomes greener in the spring.
The blood orange, or raspberry orange, is a variety of sweet orange (Citrus × sinensis) with crimson, near blood-colored flesh. it is believed to be a cross between a sweet orange and a berry. Bitter orange Seville orange Sour orange Bigarade orange Marmalade orange Citrus × aurantium var amara: Koji orange: Citrus leiocarpa: Navel orange ...
While it was traditionally topped with a bitter orange called daidai (chosen for sounding like the phrase “generation to generation”), it has since been commonly replaced with mikan, another ...
The well-known version is made from bitter orange. It is also made from lemons, limes, grapefruits, mandarins, sweet oranges, bergamots, and other citrus fruits, or a combination. Citrus is the most typical choice of fruit for marmalade, though historically the term has often been used for non-citrus preserves. [2]
It is native to northern China and Korea, and is also known as the Japanese bitter-orange (karatachi), [4] hardy orange [5] or Chinese bitter orange. The plant is a fairly cold-hardy citrus ( USDA zone 6) and will tolerate moderate frost and snow, making a large shrub or small tree 4–8 m (13–26 ft) tall.
It is a cross between the citron (Citrus medica) and a bitter orange (Citrus × aurantium). [3] It is native to southern regions of Iran [4] and also cultivated in the Mediterranean Basin. It is a different fruit from the Palestinian sweet lime [5] and from familiar sour limes such as the Key lime and the Persian lime.
Citrus fruits are diverse in size and shape, as well as in color and flavor, reflecting their biochemistry; [31] [32] for instance, grapefruit is made bitter-tasting by a flavanone, naringin. [ 30 ] Citrus fruits are diverse in size, shape, color, and flavor.