I wanted to apply this same kind of naming to the color orange, to understand why it was all around me.Īny color historian will tell you that orange didn’t have a name in English before Europeans encountered the fruit. Naming things is a means of recognizing them, and I’m drawn to flower guides and botanical illustrations the way a bookish child is drawn to a dictionary. It took me a long time to realize that all things are visible, even if my human eyes can’t see them: shingles on a roof, eyelashes on a mouse, leaves on a tree. It’s this feeling I return to when I consider the natural world-that awe at its specificity, its many names. There was something about the tree line that felt particularly painterly-like something out of an American natural-history landscape, red alder and Oregon ash and western red cedar all lined up in a row. I loved to sit on the dock and look at the trees dancing on the water, their colored foliage, their leaves precisely outlined against the sky. On bright and windless days, the landscape on the other side of the pond was reflected in its surface as perfectly as in a mirror. There was a pond, and a dock that led out onto it, where you could sit in skinny jeans and kick your legs out over the water. When I was in high school, in spring-sun out, the world thawing-my friends and I would walk from our campus down to the wetlands, a startling bit of wilderness in the middle of Beaverton, Oregon. I wanted to know what it meant, that I was seeing this color as if for the first time, and why it was suddenly all around me. It appeared in poems I wanted to read aloud: Frank O’Hara’s lover in an orange shirt Ada Limón’s ripening persimmons. It appeared in past purchases: an orange skirt I bought in the spring, imagining it billowing in the wind, a tangerine wristlet made of pebbled leather. It sped by on the side of a truck, flowers in the park, the color of his surfboard. That fall, I’d met someone, and orange was appearing everywhere, like some kind of hallucinatory sign. Something odd happened to me in late 2017: I became enamored with the color orange. Dried peel of tangerine is used in traditional Chinese medicine in treatment of abdominal distension and to facilitate digestion and eliminate phlegm.Paul Gauguin, Still life with Oranges, 1881 Orange peel can be used as natural repellent for the slugs in the garden. Orange is used for the manufacture of orange oil which is used in aromatherapy, in perfume industry and as a flavoring agent in food industry. Orange, as well as its fragrant zest, are often used for the preparation of cakes, cookies, juices, marmalades and jams. Tangerine and orange are usually consumed out of the hand. Aside from vitamin C, tangerine is good source of vitamin A, B1 and B6. It is also rich source of vitamin B1 and B9. Orange contains less sugar, fat and proteins, but more vitamin C and fibers than tangerine. Smaller tangerines are sweeter than larger tangerines. They contain more sugar compared to other orange cultivars.īoth tangerine and orange can be sweet or sour, depending on the variety of fruit, but tangerine is generally less sour than orange and it has stronger flavor. Some varieties of orange have belly-button-like scar on the surface and contain additional, much smaller fruit that develops on one side (on top) of the orange. Both oranges and tangerines can be seedless. Most oranges have 10 segments and up to 6 seed. Orange has thick, hard, granular rind and thick layer of inner white tissue. Tangerine contains 7 to 14 segments which are often filled with seed. It can be easily peeled and split into segments. Tangerine has thin, pebbly, soft rind lined with thin layer of white tissue from the inner side. Ripe tangerine is softer to touch compared to a ripe orange, which is firm and heavy for its size. Tangerine is smaller and less rounded than orange. It has glossy, lanceolate leaves with entire or slightly crenulated margins. Tangerine tree can reach up to 20 feet in height. It has alternately arranged oval leaves with slightly crenulated margins. Orange is an evergreen tree that can reach 30 feet in height.
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