An unexpected mitosis. (just for fun).

[helioer]

Very nicely composed series - I like

[rosko]

Thanks, guy !

[Frank Fremerey]

As a child growing up in New Zealand in the 1950s and 60s we knew this fruit as Chinese Goosebeeries on account of the Chinese gold miners who came to NZ in the 1860s and 70s.  They brought the male and female cuttings of the plant with them from south eastern China.  The fruit is now grown in most temperate areas over the world.  It is rich in Vitamin C and is a good source of dietary fibre.  The fibre is processed into capsules and is used as a mild laxative and bowel stimulant. Interestingly a large percentage of NZ fruiterers are Chinese, some being descendants of the original gold miners, and it was these fruiterers that popularised the fruit within NZ - many decades before it was unleased on the world.

Is it true that they still use DDT growing Kiwi?

[rosko]

Is it true that they still use DDT growing Kiwi?

I have no idea.

DDT is now prohibited in most countries since the seventies.

[Hugh_3170]

Hi Frank, DDT is quite rightly banned in NZ and in Australia.  Whilst I cannot say whether it has been used in the past in growing Kiwi fruit in these two countries, any farmer that attempted to do so nowdays would probably lose his farm in the ensuing court case!  I cannot say if it is still used elsewhere in the world.  I hope that it is not.

Is it true that they still use DDT growing Kiwi?