Kiwifruit Are Ripening In The North Of Italy Stock Photo

The Chinese gooseberry or kiwifruit, often shortened to kiwi in many parts of the world, is the edible berry of a cultivar group of the woody vine Actinidia deliciosa and hybrids between this and other species in the genus Actinidia. This name kiwi comes from the kiwi — a brown flightless bird and the national symbol of New Zealand.