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Cara cara navel
Orange cultivar
The Cara cara navel orange, or red-fleshed navel orange, is an early-to-midseason navel orange noted for its pinkish-to-reddish-orange flesh.
It is believed to have developed as a spontaneous bud mutation on a "standard" Washington navel orange tree.[1][2][3][4] A botanical sport discovered at the Hacienda Caracara in Valencia, Venezuela, in 1976,[4] the cara cara appears to be of such uncertain parentage as to occasionally warrant the distinction of a mutation, with only the tree on which it was found—the Washington navel—being an accepted progenitor. Cara caras did not enter the U.S consumer produce market until the late 1980s[5] and were carried only by specialty markets for many years thereafter.[6]