Gold star four : Bitter Orange Trees
February 12th 2021 I see bitter orange trees all over Liguria and they are delightful.
Bitter orange trees originally came from South East Asia, through Oman, Persia and Egypt.
They arrived in 1000AC on the coasts of the Arabian Mediterranean Sea (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Lebanon.)
In the course of the crusades, the French and Genoese loaded it on to their ships and brought it home to garnish their
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