Parent Navel Orange Tree

Located at a very busy intersection, behind a iron fence are three citrus trees. Two oranges and a grapefruit. The one orange tree, called “The Parent Navel Orange”, changed the world. The Parent Navel Trees have been attributed as the foundation of Riverside’s and Californias successful citrus industry. The two navel trees originated from Brazil’s Bahia Province and was given to Eliza Tibbets via William Saunders, a horticulturist at the Department of Agriculture in 1873.