the skin of the orange absorbs every colour of the spectrum -red, orange, yellow, green, blue ,indigo ,violet - except orange--- that's why its orange :)
The pigment is known as carotene, which is an orange photosynthetic pigment, which just means it is a pigment found in chloroplasts responsible for catching light energy used in photosynthesis.
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