NAVEL

The Navel orange is the first of our wonders to delight our consumers, being ready for the harvesting the first week of November. It is its characteristic outgrowth that almost seems like a navel to give it the name, which in English means precisely umbilicus. This peculiarity is due to the fact that it contains another small twin orange, trapped in the rind. This variety was developed for the first time in Brazil, in San Salvador of Bahia, where a traveler found it in a Benedictine monastery and after falling in love brought with it the bud that began to graft at Magnolia Street, in California. He then arrived in Sicily where, thanks to the particular vocation of the soil, the Orange Bellino succeeded in expressing himself to the fullest , distinguishing itself particulary for a very sweet and sugary taste, the absence of seeds and a thin and soft skin