Cara Cara Navel Oranges

Our weekly farm delivery this past week was all fruit, and inside were navel oranges. They send along a sheet of paper with the box's contents, and it seemed like the oranges had a specific name. I ignored it for the most part; they looked like regular oranges:

When compared to regular navel oranges, you can't tell the difference, which can't be said about blood oranges. Blood oranges usually have rinds with orange-to-maroon gradation covering the dark purple-to-red flesh. Below, one of those is a regular navel orange and the other was one of these cara cara navels:

I mention all this because when I went to peel the cara cara navel, I noticed something weird: the flesh was pink, like a ruby red grapefruit. Check below at the comparison of the two above oranges:

Cara cara navels are named for the cara cara region of the Venezuelan coast where they were discovered by the western powers in the late 1970s. Hardly available in the US until the late '90s, and even then it was only to be found at up-scale specialty grocery stores, some farmers are now starting to grow them in other orange heavy regions.

The flavor is sweet and less acidic than normal orange-flavor, and has been said to resemble berries and rose petals. I'm not so sure about that; I find it between regular oranges and blood oranges on the flavor scale. Mild, sweet, not so acidic, pretty refreshing.