Orange (colour) and absorb mostly greenish-blue light. (See also shades of orange). Other orange pigments include: The orange colour of carrots, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, oranges, and many other fruits and vegetables comes from carotenes, a type of photosynthetic pigment. These pigments convert the light energy that the plants absorb from the sun into chemical energy for the plants' growth. The carotenes themselves take their name from the carrot. Autumn leaves also get their orange colour from carotenes. When the weather turns cold and production of green chlorophyll stops, the orange colour remains. Before the 18th century, carrots from Asia were usually purple,
Orange (heraldry) (red) and dots (yellow). A color used for orange in armorials should be distinct from both Gules (red) and Or (yellow), but also from Tenné (light brown) and carnation (flesh-colour). Orange (heraldry) In heraldry, orange is a rarely used tincture except in Catalan, South African, and American Military heraldries. Unless in English heraldry, Orange is not to be confused with tenné ("tanné"), which depicts the color of tanned leather and then slowly became a tincture of its own, along with carnation used for white human skin. Orange didn't receive a hatching pattern during medieval and renaissance times, and first was