Kiwifruit is also known as carambola, vine pear, golden pear, sheep fruit, etc. It is named kiwifruit because macaques like to eat, and it is also said that its fruit skin is covered with hair, which looks like a macaque.
There is no difference between kiwifruit and kiwi, and it is a kind of fruit.
Kiwifruit belongs to the Macaque family. Kiwifruit is a deciduous liana plant, which is widely distributed in the south of the Yangtze River Basin in China and in Shaanxi, Henan and northwest regions. It is mostly wild. The fruit is a berry, shaped like an egg, with a yellow-brown-green peel and mature in summer and autumn.
Kiwi fruit, also known as kiwi fruit (kiwi fruit is an artificially selected variety of kiwi fruit, which has become a nickname for kiwi fruit due to its wide use). The origin of the world’s kiwi fruit is in Wudu River Town, Yiling District, Yichang City, Hubei Province, China. On November 6, 2008, at the International Kiwi Conference held in New Zealand, more than 200 experts from 19 countries around the world agreed that China is the native center of kiwi fruit, and the origin of the world’s kiwi fruit is in Wudu River Town, Yiling District, Yichang City, Hubei Province.
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The hometown of monkey pear is in China. The Book of Songs has the chant of “There is a long chu in the marsh”, which is the ancient name of the kiwi fruit. The Tang Dynasty poet Cen Shen depicted “a kiwi on the well bar in the atrium”. The Song Dynasty “Kaibao Materia Medica” called the kiwi fruit: “a vine pear, a wooden child, and a macaque pear,” and recorded that it was “shaped like a chicken egg, its skin is brown, and it is sweet and edible after frosting.”
In the Compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen also wrote: Kiwi fruit “is like a pear in shape and a peach in color, and macaques like to eat, so it has many names.” Kiwi fruit is very popular in countries around the world and is known as “the world’s precious fruit”. The United States calls it “Chinese gooseberry”, and the United Kingdom calls it “Chinese goose berry”.
Kiwi fruit is native to China and was originally a wild fruit. It was not until the beginning of the last century that a female teacher in New Zealand brought it back from Wudu River, Yiling District, Yichang City, Hubei Province. It developed into a fruit called kiwi. The development process from wild to cultivated is quite legendary.
Reference:
People’s Daily Online – Magic Fruit Kiwi
