Who Put The Navel In Navel Oranges?
April 2009
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103250589
“That appearance of a navel on the orange is the result of a mutation,” Moses says. The mutation created a conjoined twin
And the mutation that started it all? A single branch on a sour orange tree in the garden of a monastery in Brazil.
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2007
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/med-aro/toc.html
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