Foraging spot

Orange tree

Navels winter-spring; Valencias trail into summer.

Coordinates: 37.854561, -122.260796

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Ripe: January–DecemberPeak: January, February, MarchEat the: Fruit

What to do with it

Eat fresh in segments
Fresh-squeezed juice
Candy the peel; zest into cakes

Ways to keep it

Marmalade
Candied peel
Orange wine (ferment)
Freeze segments or juice

About Orange

Citrus × sinensis (sometimes written Citrus sinensis), the sweet orange, is a broadleaf evergreen hybrid between pomelo (Citrus maxima) and mandarin (Citrus reticulata). Hybrid sweet oranges are commonly cultivated fruits that include Valencia oranges, blood oranges and navel oranges.

From Wikipedia.

Tree and plant locations come from Falling Fruit, a volunteer-run map of the urban harvest, used under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. This project is non-commercial. Locations are crowd-sourced and provided as-is — always confirm a plant's identity and that you're welcome to pick before foraging.

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