What is an orange a cross breed of?
                                
                                
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                                The common orange, a fruit so ubiquitous that it lent its name to a color, did not actually occur in the wild but is instead a natural hybrid. This familiar fruit is the crossbreed of the mandarin orange and the pomelo, two ancient citrus species.