why are oranges orange?

Answer 1

Plants want fruits like oranges to get eaten - that's why they make them, so that animals will eat them and disperse the seads away from the parent plant. Orange trees evolved orange fruits because that's the best colour to attract the animals that they want to eat them.

Answer 2

I'm one of those who fall in with the "some of them are green" experts. But what about on the inside? I have personally eaten some Moroccan oranges that turned bright red inside when they were ripe!!
And, on a related fruit - why aren't limes always green? I find them very confusing in markets when they aren't labelled as limes, and look an awful lot like oranges! (They aren't worth it for taste - they don't taste like oranges AT ALL).
I guess that the answer to it all is that the fruits of different trees or bushes can also vary in how much pigment they develop in their fruits.

Answer 3

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The colour orange occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum at a wavelength of about 585–620 nm. It is a pure chroma in the colour theory, with a hue of 30° in HSV colour space. The complementary colour of orange is azure. With pigments such as paints or inks, the primary colours magenta) and yellow mixed together produce the secondary colour orange in the proportion of 75% yellow and 25% magenta. Orange pigments are largely in the ochre or cadmium families.

Answer 4

If you're asking why the colour or oranges is called orange, that's easy enough.

If you're asking why oranges are of a certain colour (which is called orange), then the answer is called beta carotene. So the colour could be called carrot instead of orange!

Cheers

Answer 5

Well, some of them, like a South Indian Lime, also known as a Moosambie, is not orange ... and neither are some of the tangerines (which they call 'Mandarins', I suppose because they came from China??) in India .... they both have green skin when ripe, as is the case with some Bananas .....perfectly ripe, but the outer skin is green ...

Answer 6

it evolved from an indian local language called tamil.or means six and ange means five.six +five=11,thats is the number of peaces in an orange.

Answer 7

if they were pink they would be called pinks, nature made the abundance of colors ,orange is a primary color ROYGBIV.I love oranges but have an allergy to them

Answer 8

Orange peel absorbs UV light and most higher energy visible light because of chlorophyll and carotenoids. The light it doesn't absorb is orange color, which is what you see being reflected.

Answer 9

because scientists went with the easiest thing they could think of.

If a fruit is orange, we'll call it an orange

It makes perfect sense...

Answer 10

because they would not be oranges