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.

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.

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 ...

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.