Orange and green are not normally put together, or thought of as a colour scheme per say. One of the interesting things about orange and green is that they share yellow. Yellow plus blue is green, yellow plus red is orange. Since orange and green both have yellow, the mixture of the two colours produces a dark yellowish brown. There is nothing special about that colour, it resembles coffee with milk, or the top of a toasted marshmallow. You can even get the same colour using an umber pigment. Its also possible to darken a yellow paint with a black paint, which produces a similar colour as the combination of orange and green.
To summarize, orange plus green equals dark yellow! It was not something I appreciated until recently, after I digested the tome of knowledge on Handprint.com. In a practical sense, I have used dark yellow a lot more in my paintings, it helps to create shadows on yellow objects and some kinds of foliage.
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