The origin of kiwi fruit is Wuduhe Town, Yiling District, Yichang City, Hubei Province.

Kiwi fruit (scientific name: Actinidia chinensis Planch), also known as kiwi fruit (kiwi fruit is an artificially selected variety of kiwi fruit, and has become the synonym for kiwi fruit due to its wide use). China is the origin of kiwi fruit, which was introduced to New Zealand in the early 20th century.

The fruit shape of kiwi fruit is generally oval. It is yellow-brown in the early stage and reddish-brown when mature. The skin is covered with dense villi and the flesh is edible. Inside is bright green flesh and a row of black or red. of seeds. Because macaques like to eat, it is named kiwi fruit; it is also said that it is named because the peel is covered with hair and looks like a macaque. It is a fruit with fresh quality, rich nutrition and delicious flavor.

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Distribution range

Kiwi grows on hillside forest edges or shrubs, and is cultivated in some gardens. There are 66 species in the genus Actinidia, 62 of which are naturally distributed in China. The two species mainly produced and cultivated in the world are delicious kiwi and Chinese kiwi. The outer skin of delicious kiwi fruit branches and fruits is covered with downy hairs (such as Qin Mei, Xu Xiang, Hayward, etc.), while the outer skin of Chinese kiwi fruit branches and fruits is relatively smooth (such as Hongyang, Huanghuangguo, etc.). These two species are mainly distributed in the Yangtze River Basin in central China and the areas south of the Qinling Mountains and east of the Hengduan Mountains.

By the early 1970s, kiwi fruit cultivation was still limited to New Zealand, and the cultivation area was not large. Since then, the unique flavor of kiwi fruit has been recognized and welcomed by consumers, and kiwi fruit has developed rapidly around the world. In addition to New Zealand, Chile, Italy, France, Japan and China are all major kiwi fruit producers.

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