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The fruit is referred to as the arctic kiwi, baby kiwi, cocktail kiwi, dessert kiwi, grape kiwi, hardy kiwifruit, kiwi berry, northern kiwi, Siberian gooseberry, or Siberian kiwi, [1] and is an edible, berry- or grape-sized fruit similar to kiwifruit in taste and appearance, but is green, brownish, or purple with smooth skin, sometimes with a red blush.
Kiwi berries. Kiwi berries are edible fruits the size of a large grape, similar to fuzzy kiwifruit in taste and internal appearance but with a thin, smooth green skin. They are primarily produced by three species: Actinidia arguta (hardy kiwi), A. kolomikta (Arctic kiwifruit) and A. polygama (silver vine).
Actinidia melanandra, known as purple kiwi or red kiwi is a fruiting plant in the genus Actinidia, which contains three commercially grown species of kiwifruit. The plant is native to parts of Hubei, Sichuan, and Yunnan provinces of China. [1] The fruit has a fuzzy purple skin with reddish flesh. [2] Although the fruit is edible, [3] is not ...
Actinidia deliciosa is a vigorous, woody, twining vine or climbing shrub reaching 9 metres (30 ft). [1] The black-lyre leafroller moth ("Cnephasia" jactatana) is one of the few commercially significant pests of this plant. Fungal pathogen Fusarium acuminatum has been found to be a ripe rot pathogen of Actinidia deliciosa in New Zealand.
Kiwi eggs can weigh up to one-quarter the weight of the female. Usually, only one egg is laid per season. The kiwi lays one of the largest eggs in proportion to its size of any bird in the world, [34] [a] so even though the kiwi is about the size of a domestic chicken, it is able to lay eggs that are about six times the size of a chicken's egg ...
Species. Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis. Marketing names. Kiwi Gold. Origin. New Zealand (1992) The gold kiwifruit or yellow kiwi (t/a Kiwi Gold) is a variety of kiwifruit developed by the company Zespri International Ltd. The yellow kiwi is a different species (Actinidia chinensis) but of the same genus as the green one (Actinidia deliciosa).
Actinidia chinensis (Planch.), [ 1] known commercially as the golden kiwifruit, is a fruiting vine, native to China. It is one of some 40 related species of the genus Actinidia, and closely related to Actinidia deliciosa, [ 2] which is the source of the most common commercial kiwifruit. [ 2][ 3] Fruit colour may vary from green to lime green or ...
Following are 10 little known facts about the ubiquitous labels. Number 10. They're edible. If you've finished baking a whole apple pie only to realize you forgot to take the stickers off of the ...