18 Interesting Facts About Oranges

Orange is a juicy fruit that most of us have tasted at least once in our lives. Finding oranges on the store counter is not difficult at any time of the year, since there are a great many orange trees in the world and the volumes in which this fruit is grown allow us to supply everyone with it. Orange is extremely tasty, at least some of its varieties. Also, it is a real storehouse of vitamins.

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Facts About Oranges

1. Orange ranks first in the world by the weight of the crop harvested annually. The banana is in second place.
2. The most common citrus in the world is the orange.
3. The Chinese cultivated oranges about four and a half thousand years ago.
4. Some orange trees live for one hundred to one hundred and fifty years.
5. A large orange tree can bear up to forty thousand fruits per year.
6. The crown of an adult orange tree is comparable to that of an oak.
7. Oranges are not the only orange, but also green, and green is usually the variety that grows in a particularly hot tropical climate.
8. The famous Bobby Leach, a man who descended Niagara Falls in a special barrel, died because of an orange - slipped on an orange peel and fell, hitting hard.
9. In the USA, California, it is illegal to eat oranges while taking a bath.
10. There are about 35 million orange trees in Spain.
11. However, the leader in the production of oranges is another country - Brazil. Almost eighteen million tons of oranges are produced here annually.
12. Moro oranges are very sweet fruits. They differ from their other counterparts in the blood-red color of the pulp.
13. The first seedlings of orange trees were brought to the New World by Christopher Columbus.
14. About 85% of all oranges harvested in the world are used for juice production. Unsurprisingly, orange juice is the most popular on earth.
15. It is the oranges that are the very "golden apples" from the ancient Greek legend about Hercules, which this hero was supposed to kidnap.
16. There are about six hundred varieties of oranges in the world.
17. Argentina has developed a special cargo plane to carry oranges. The model was named "Naranjero", which means "Orange" in Spanish.
18. There is a monument to the orange in Odessa.