I Didn’t Know That. . .

Q. Since a navel orange doesn’t produce seeds, how does it reproduce?

A. It doesn’t. The first navel orange tree was a seedless mutant that appeared on a plantation in Brazil in the early 19th century. Growers propagated it by grafting buds onto other orange trees. Those buds then were grafted onto other trees, and so on. Today, every navel orange tree in the world is a direct descendant of the original Brazilian tree.