One spring blossom day, Sweet Orange and Lemon, who have been in love for a long time, decided to get a license, but the staff refused the marriage application on the grounds that they were related by blood.
So...... What exactly do they have to do with each other?
Today, Orange Boy will give you a pickpocket of the "chaotic gossip history" of the citrus family, which is as wonderful as the ethical war of Greek mythology!
About 8 million years ago, the citrus family originated in the Himalayas. Among them, the southwestern part of the continent Yunnan, the Assam region of India, and adjacent areas are the centers of origin.
The most primitive ancestor of the citrus family is the wolfberry (also known as citron), on this basis evolved the broad-skinned grapefruit and the broad-skinned orange. The three elders who make up the citrus family.
The origin of citron is millions of years earlier than that of broad-skinned citrus, and it is the true ancestor of the citrus family. One day, under the matching of nature, citron and grapefruit fell in love and gave birth to a baby called Lemon (also known as Lime).
About 2 million years ago, the core figure of the citrus family, the broad peel orange, appeared, and now the Nanfeng honey orange we eat is pure and pure from the wide peel orange.
Broad-skinned oranges have the characteristics of "thin and loose skin, easy to peel". This makes a huge contribution to the genetic improvement of future generations.
Soon, the wide-skinned oranges and grapefruits fell in love at first sight, and they both fell in love and crossed over the "orange" variety, and their direct descendants were not the common oranges on the market, but limes.
The lime boy perfectly inherited his father's flower heart, and even made a lot of offspring with his ancestor citron, including lemon, lemon and coarse lemon.
Yuzu's mother is also a master who can't stay idle, and she even messes with her own bastard, and sweet orange is thus introduced. Sweet Orange's father cannot be traced back to the specific source, and can only be determined to be an early mixed orange.
Sweet Orange grew up and did not want to show weakness, and his mother, Yuzu, continued to be "not ashamed and impatient", and made a small hybrid: grapefruit.
If you want to say that there is no discipline, it must be a wide peel orange! In the past, they were all fathers, in order to experience being a mother, this guy actually joined with sweet oranges and gave birth to oranges. Then I made a bunch of mixed oranges with mandarin oranges... These descendants are collectively referred to as "citrus".
The citrus family also has a pair of half-brothers, Lemon and Lemon, the son of Citron and Yuzu, and Lemon, which is a hybrid of Citron and Lime.
At this point, the lineup of the citrus family has basically been neat, but under the "chaotic Mandarin duck spectrum" of nature and citrus experts, the citrus family is still constantly interspersing various new species.
Today, many citrus varieties can no longer be traced back to their complete family trees. For example, Red Beauty, Wow, Harumi...
The above is the evolution of the genealogy of the citrus family, all in all, this is a very shameless "incest family".
However, thanks to this "chaos", we can eat sweet and juicy navel oranges, thin-skinned and thick oranges, and drink a refreshing lemonade in the hot summer! The story about the citrus family is here, are you clear?
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