Tangerines

Tangerines, or oranges (sometimes "Mikan" as the fruit is called in Japanese), is fruit that Bellemere grows, she has a Tangerine Grove in her yard. Bellemere always liked to cook something from Tangerines (also other foods behind Tangerines). Before she died, she was cooking Tangerine Sauce. After Bellemere died, it became Nami's memento of Bellemere. When Nami went on a voyage with Luffy, she took the Tangerine Trees with her.

Tangerines are often used as a symbol for Nami. Her tattoo is a combination of a tangerine and a pinwheel, in the 7th movie she wears a collar band with a tangerine and in Movie 10 she leaves an envelope sealed by a tangerine emblem.

Tangerine Trees
When Nami departed her village, she brought with her three tangerine trees onto the Straw Hat Pirates's ship, first on the Going Merry then later on the Thousand Sunny. They provide the crew with Vitamin C as well as some decor for the ship.

Nami does not want anyone eating the Tangerines from the tree, aside from Nami taking care of them, Sanji also protects these three trees from those who might otherwise harm them or steal the fruit, like Luffy. During Water 7 arc, when the crew abandoned the ship, Nami took the trees and moved them to the hotel storage house. After the Enies Lobby Raid, Nami thought all of the crew's belongings and her Tangerine Trees were washed away by the Aqua Laguna, Nami then went into a deep depression. But in reality, the locals seized their belongings and kept them for themselves but when they learned of the truth about the assassin attack against Iceburg, they returned the belongings including the tangerine trees, Nami happily hugs them.

They, along with the rest of the Straw Hats' stuff, now reside in a little area on the top of the kitchen and dinning hall of the Thousand Sunny that mimics the area on top of the Going Merry, together with Robin's flower garden, the chimney for the kitchen below, and the office branch for Usopp's Factory.

Tangerine Sauce
Tangerines Sauce is an orange sauce that is suppose to taste like Tangerines. Bellemere was cooking it for dinner, she was cooking a duck, and rice.

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