It belongs to a variety of common sweet oranges, and other common ones are blood orange, brocade orange, orange and hamlin sweet orange.

Navel orange is a unique variety of sweet orange, which belongs to the bud mutation variety of common sweet orange. The base of fruit or capsule contains a part similar to human navel, so it is called navel orange.

Navel oranges are mostly bud varieties of Washington Navel Orange, such as Newhall Navel Orange, Ting Anne Navel Orange, Bai Liu Navel Orange, Longhuihong Navel Orange, Longhong Navel Orange, Red Meat Navel Orange, Wan Lun Navel Orange and Feng Wan Navel Orange. Their unified characteristics are orange-red fruit, low acidity after maturity, generally below 1 degree, and sugar degree between 12 degree and 6552 degree.