The Spanish-style house a few blocks away has a kumquat tree dripping with quarter-sized orange fruit next to a Meyer lemon tree that looks to have closer to 100 yellow orbs hanging from the branches.

"Picking fruit straight from a tree sounds wonderfully natural, but there are some important things to keep in mind," an expert told Newsweek.

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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.

In a modern supermarket, shiny globes of oranges are stacked in pyramids. They appear identical and in their seeming perfection, unremarkable, a mundane fruit to slice into wedges and pack in a ...

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.