I have seen this plant growing in personal gardens out here tanay On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote:
> Citrus sinensis, naval orange, also known as the Washington, Riverside, or > Bahia navel. This seedless fruit was a result of mutation, the mutation > causes the orange to develop a second orange at the base of the original > fruit, opposite the stem, as a conjoined > twin<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjoined_twins> > in a set of smaller segments embedded within the peel of the larger > orange. From the outside, it looks similar to the human > navel<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navel>, > hence its nam. Being sterile and seedless, it can be propagated only by > grafting it on other hardy varieties. Because the mutation left the fruit > seedless, and therefore sterile, the only means available to cultivate more > of this new variety is to graft cuttings onto other varieties of citrus > tree. > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > -- *Tanay Bose* Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. Department of Botany. University of British Columbia . 3529-6270 University Blvd. Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) 604-822-2019 (Lab) 604-822-6089 (Fax) [email protected]
