Organic Cara Cara Vanilla Bean Fruit Spread
This jam is an eccentric ‘creamsicle’: cara cara orange + vanilla bean. It may not seem like that strange of a fruit or marmalade, yet the first cara cara was discovered at the hacienda caracara in Valencia, Venezuela in 1976 and is believed to have developed as a spontaneous bud mutation on a Washington naval orange tree.
The cara cara is a mutation that botanists call bud sport. In botany, a bud sport is a part of a plant that shows morphological differences from the rest of the plant. The cause for these fantastic freaks is generally thought to be a chance genetic mutation.
