The first person to successfully grow a navel orange tree in the United States was Eliza Tibbets, a Cincinnati-born 19th-century suffragist and abolitionist who planted two of the trees at her ...

There are different varieties of orange trees to grow, including navel oranges, Valencia oranges, and blood oranges, and oranges are self-fertile fruit trees - so you can get fruit with just one tree.

Humans, however, have brought a great winnowing: Out of thousands of wild types, only a few dozen have become commercial behemoths like the navel orange, Eureka lemon, and Mexican lime.

The first is Eliza Tibbets who planted a Washington navel orange in Riverside in 1873. Clonal propagation of navel oranges courtesy of buds from that tree led to a booming orange industry that made a ...

Clonal propagation of navel oranges courtesy of buds from that tree led to a booming orange industry that made a significant contribution to the prosperity of this state in its early years.