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A clementine (Citrus × clementina) is a tangor, a citrus fruit hybrid between a willowleaf mandarin orange (C. × deliciosa) and a sweet orange (C. × sinensis), [1] [2] [3] named in honor of Clément Rodier, a French missionary who first discovered and propagated the cultivar in Algeria. [4]
The word "orange" entered Middle English from Old French and Anglo-Norman orenge. [2] The earliest recorded use of the word in English is from the 13th century and referred to the fruit. The first recorded use of "orange" as a colour name in English was in 1502, in a description of clothing purchased for Margaret Tudor.
A mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata), often simply called mandarin, is a small, rounded citrus tree fruit. Treated as a distinct species of orange , it is usually eaten plain or in fruit salads. The mandarin is small and oblate, unlike the roughly spherical sweet orange (which is a mandarin- pomelo hybrid ).
The web color orange-red was formulated in 1987 as one of the X11 colors, which became known as the X11 web colors after the invention of the World Wide Web in 1991. Medium vermilion [ edit ]
The Moro is the most colorful of the blood oranges, with a deep red flesh and a rind with a bright red blush. [10] The flavor is stronger and the aroma is more intense than a normal orange. This fruit has a distinct, sweet flavor with a hint of raspberry. [11] This orange possesses a more bitter taste than the 'Tarocco' or the 'Sanguinello'.
“In the first few years of the 20th century, there were party guides being published that called yellow and brown Halloween’s colors, thanks to the holiday’s association with the fall ...
Parc de Versailles, with the orange trees in boxes. The bitter orange (Citrus × aurantium) was introduced to Europe by the 15th or 16th century. [2]At first, bitter oranges were an expensive food item, with some medieval cookbooks detailing exactly how many orange slices a visiting dignitary was entitled to.
The fruit is a hesperidium, a specialised berry with multiple carpels, globose to elongated, [25] [26] 4–30 cm (1.6–11.8 in) long and 4–20 cm (1.6–7.9 in) diameter, with a leathery rind or "peel" called a pericarp. The outermost layer of the pericarp is an "exocarp" called the flavedo, commonly referred to as the zest. The middle layer ...