Al-Masudi

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Al-Masudi, a 10th century traveller and historian wrote about the introduction of the orange tree (shajar al-naranji) and the citron tree (al-utrujj al-mudawwar) which were brought from india around 300 AH (912CE). These trees were first planted in Oman, they were then transported via al-Basra into Iraq and Syria.

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