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Kiwi eat small invertebrates, seeds, grubs, and many varieties of worms. They also may eat fruit, small crayfish, eels and amphibians. Because their nostrils are located at the end of their long beaks, kiwi can locate insects and worms underground using their keen sense of smell, without actually seeing or feeling them. [25]
Kiwifruit (often shortened to kiwi outside Australia and New Zealand), or Chinese gooseberry, is the edible berry of several species of woody vines in the genus Actinidia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The most common cultivar group of kiwifruit ( Actinidia deliciosa 'Hayward') [ 3 ] is oval, about the size of a large hen's egg : 5–8 centimetres (2–3 inches ...
Kiwi most commonly refers to: Kiwi (bird), a flightless bird native to New Zealand; Kiwi (nickname), an informal name for New Zealanders; Kiwifruit, an edible hairy ...
A kiwifruit orchard in the North Island of New Zealand. Kiwifruit or kiwi is a major horticultural export earner for New Zealand.New Zealand developed the first commercially viable kiwifruit and developed export markets, creating the demand for the fruit that exists today.
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).
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.
Zespri International Limited is the largest marketer of kiwifruit in the world, selling in over 50 countries. Its international headquarters is in Mount Maunganui , New Zealand. [ 1 ] However, it has licensed growers in Australia, France, Greece, Italy, Japan, and South Korea, with trials in place in several other countries.
A sliced Zespri Golden kiwi 'Hort16A' is a golden kiwifruit cultivar marketed worldwide, first as Zespri Gold, [2] then as SunGold. [4] This cultivar suffered significant losses in New Zealand from late 2010 to 2013 due to the PSA bacterium. A new cultivar of golden kiwifruit, 'Zesy002', was found to be more disease-resistant and most growers ...