Commercial kiwifruit domestication (Hayward cultivar)
Domesticación comercial del kiwi (cultivar Hayward)
- Date
- c. 1924-1930 · confidence medium
- Place
- Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand
- Credited to
- Hayward Wright (seeds brought from China by Isabel Fraser, 1904)
- People
- 👤 Hayward Wright1873–1959
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Selection in New Zealand of the Chinese gooseberry (Actinidia deliciosa) into a large fruit that kept well. It became a worldwide crop and gave rise to the commercial name 'kiwifruit' (1959).
The plant is native to the Yangtze valley; its domestication as a commercial crop was New Zealand's doing.
What it led to
- New Zealand's kiwifruit export industry
- kiwifruit growing in Italy, Chile and China