Slight correction, it is Navel (not naval) orange
-- 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/ On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 8:28 PM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > > x
