As History Facts explained, you can trace the fruit's beginnings back to the Himalayas some 8 million years ago. From there, orange trees sprouted up through the Indian subcontinent and China.

In 2012, reader Erica wrote in with a question about oranges. Is the fruit named for its color, or is the color named for the fruit? The answer to this question is actually pretty simple: Orange ...

Was the orange named because it was the color orange, or did the color get its name because of the fruit? Time to take a little language history lesson.

The story of the orange, properly speaking, begins in the Himalayas, 8 million years ago. Born of pomelos and mandarins, the hybrid fruit eventually diffused across Asia, becoming particularly ...

But as Katie Goh unravels in Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange, underneath its pitted skin, the orange contains multitudes. "Citrus is fruit that freely betrays," Goh writes.