SC - Help!!!!

[Kim Nagata]

In a message dated 9/12/00 4:09:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ddfr at best.com 
writes:

<< Do you have evidence that sweet oranges got to the Middle East 
 earlier? I'm pretty sure they were coming from China, so it is 
 plausible enough, especially given the close ties between the Ilkhans 
 and the Mongol rulers of China.
 
 -- 
 David/Cariadoc >>

I have a few notes indicating that Citrus sinensis, the ancestor of sweet 
oranges, is probably native to Southeastern Asia. Since Islam was trading 
spices with that section of the world, it would make since that they came 
into contact with this fruit earlier than the barbarous tribes in the North. 
I am still working on getting all my notes and facts together for an article 
for To Serve It Forth regarding origins of various citrus trees. You will be 
the first to see it. Perhaps you would be so kind as to give me a critique 
before I submit it? Anyhow, I have nothing concrete merely supposition.

Ras
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