Kiwi Fruit Orchard Vines New Zealand
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Kiwi fruit ripened and ready for harvesting on the orchard vines in Te Puke in the Bay of Plenty on the North Island of New Zealand.

The kiwi fruit was known as yang tao when introduced to New Zealand as that is what it was called in China, but people in New Zealand thought the flavour was like that of a gooseberry. The fruit was known in New Zealand as the Chinese gooseberry but politics got in the way and an Auckland man came up with the kiwi fruit name which took very quickly and it became the industry-wide name.

Kiwi fruit is commercially grown and on the North Island of New Zealand, the climate provides plenty of sunshine for this vines to ripen the fruit to perfection. Before the orchard shows any signs of the fruit, sturdy supports are built for the vines to climb on and be able to hold the weight of the kiwi when ripe. Kiwi is a great source of Vitamin C and potassium along with other smaller does of vitamin A and E.

New Zealand, North Island, Bay of Plenty, Kiwi Fruit, Te Puke