toback2 wrote:
>
> Wirt Atmar writes:
>
> >Seedless
> >varieties are almost always produced by hybridization of two fully sexual,
> >normally genetically isolated species to produce a sterile hybrid so that no
> >further floral fertilization (a pollen grain meets up with an ovule) is
> >required for fruit set.
>
> One exception is the navel orange. All of today's navel orange trees are
> the result of sequential grafts of a single mutant orange tree found in
> Brazil in the 1850s (not sure of the exact date).
>
Is the navel orange really seedless.  I thought the navel orange
had seeds at
its "navel" (at one end) and therefore not in the fruit.

Is this true?

Nick D.