Today there's an article on the BBC website about Vicente Todolí and Todolí Citrus Fundació, an initiative to not just catalogue and preserve but to actively use many varieties of citrus fruit.
And there are, indeed, many varieties, with a greater range of shapes and sizes and colours than are found in the (known) apple universe:
There's one shaped like an octopus with fat tentacles, a wart-covered citron the size of a newborn baby and a colourful pear-shaped fruit splattered in a tie-dye of green and yellow.
If or when I return to the Valencia coast of Spain (it's been a very long time), it feels like an almost obligatory visit. And not just because of a lifelong love of quality marmalade.
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