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The name "durian" literally means "the thorns" in Indonesian. It is also known as the 'King of Fruits'. Indonesia has two fruiting seasons because durian is grown in various localities. The main harvest is from October to February, but another region produces the crop around June to September. Iran: Pomegranate: Punica granatum [citation needed ...
People who tasted the fruit thought it had a gooseberry flavour, so began to call it the Chinese gooseberry, but being from the genus Actinidia, it is not related to the gooseberry family, Grossulariaceae. The familiar cultivar Actinidia deliciosa 'Hayward' was developed by Hayward Wright in Avondale, New Zealand, around 1924. This is the most ...
Actinidia arguta, the hardy kiwi or kiwiberry [1], is a perennial vine native to Japan, Korea, Northern China, and the Russian Far East. It produces a small kiwifruit without the hair-like fiber covering the outside, unlike most other species of the genus.
The name kiwifruit was adopted for the furry, brown fruit in relation to New Zealand's furry, brown, national bird – the kiwi. [8] The name was first registered by Turners & Growers on 15 June 1959, [ 8 ] and commercially adopted in 1974.
They are temperate and subtropical woody vines, shrubs, and trees, native to Asia (Actinidia or kiwifruit, Clematoclethra, and Saurauia) and Central America and South America (Saurauia only).
Kawran Bazar (Bengali: কাওরান বাজার), misspelled as Karwan Bazar, [1] [2] is a central business district and is one of the biggest commodity marketplaces in Dhaka city, the capital of Bangladesh. [3] Located in Tejgaon Thana, it is a designated commercial area of the Dhaka North City Corporation. [4]
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The yellow fruit obtains a higher market price and, being less hairy than the fuzzy kiwifruit, is more palatable for consumption without peeling. [2] [4] A commercially viable variety of this red-ringed kiwifruit, patented as EnzaRed, is a cultivar of the Chinese hong yang variety. [5] A sliced Zespri Golden kiwi