Hello, without googling the answer here is why they are called navel oranges.
In the days when there were seville oranges (for marmalade), sweet oranges with pips and navel oranges - without pips but with baby orange at one end of the orange - thus looking like a belly-button or navel - and I supposed the name navel oranges came from that baby orange looking like a belly-button. Of course oranges now are so hybrid we get all varieties of easy peel and hybrids with tangerines of which I believe the satsuma is one. Agnes's Mum will tell you the scientific stuff but that's my layman answer.
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Hello, without googling the answer here is why they are called navel oranges.
In the days when there were seville oranges (for marmalade), sweet oranges with pips and navel oranges - without pips but with baby orange at one end of the orange - thus looking like a belly-button or navel - and I supposed the name navel oranges came from that baby orange looking like a belly-button. Of course oranges now are so hybrid we get all varieties of easy peel and hybrids with tangerines of which I believe the satsuma is one. Agnes's Mum will tell you the scientific stuff but that's my layman answer.
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