Actually, the color is named after the fruit. It wasn’t until the late Middle Ages that we discovered anything other than the redcurrant that was red in color. Poppies, for example, were only discovered in ~1917, and we only found out about blood in the 1970s.
Orange, cherry, blackberry, etc.
I’m pretty sure orange and cherry are named after the fruit, but Blackberry is true.
Pendants will argue that black is not a colour
Redcurrant
Actually, the color is named after the fruit. It wasn’t until the late Middle Ages that we discovered anything other than the redcurrant that was red in color. Poppies, for example, were only discovered in ~1917, and we only found out about blood in the 1970s.
Fuck.
Greengages.
The source for this is old reddit threads, so hardly authoritative, but supposedly the color orange was actually named after the food item.