"Cultivation spread from China in the early 20th century when seeds were introduced to New Zealand by Isabel Fraser, the principal of Wanganui Girls' College, who had been visiting mission schools in China. The seeds were planted in 1906 by a Wanganui nurseryman, Alexander Allison, with the vines first fruiting in 1910. People who tasted the fruit thought it had a gooseberry flavour, so began to call it the Chinese gooseberry, but being from the genus ""Actinidia"", it is not related to the gooseberry family, Grossulariaceae. The familiar cultivar ""Actinidia deliciosa"" 'Hayward' was developed by Hayward Wright in Avondale, New"
"Kiwifruit Kiwifruit (often abbreviated as kiwi), or Chinese gooseberry, is the edible berry of several species of woody vines in the genus ""Actinidia"". The most common cultivar group of kiwifruit ('Hayward') is oval, about the size of a large hen's egg ( in length and in diameter). It has a fibrous, dull greenish-brown skin and bright green or golden flesh with rows of tiny, black, edible seeds. The fruit has a soft texture with a sweet and unique flavour. China produced 56% of the world total of kiwifruit in 2016. The word ""kiwifruit"" and the shortened ""kiwi"" have been used"
"Gooseberry The gooseberry ( or (American and northern British) or (southern British)), with scientific names Ribes uva-crispa (and syn. Ribes grossularia), is a species of ""Ribes"" (which also includes the currants). It is native to Europe, the Caucasus and northern Africa. The species is also sparingly naturalized in scattered locations in North America. Gooseberry bushes produce an edible fruit and are grown on both a commercial and domestic basis. Its native distribution is unclear, since it may have escaped from cultivation and become naturalized. For example, in Britain, some sources consider it to be a native, others to be an"
"Goji Goji, goji berry, or wolfberry, is the fruit of either ""Lycium barbarum"" or ""Lycium chinense"", two closely related species of boxthorn in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. Both species are native to Asia, and have been long used in traditional Asian cuisine. The fruits are similar but can be distinguished by small but significant differences in taste, sugar content, and content of the aminoacid betaine. The fruit has also been an ingredient in traditional Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese medicine, since at least the 3rd century CE. The plant parts are called by the Latin names lycii fructus (fruit), herba"
"Myrica rubra Myrica rubra, also called yangmei (; Cantonese: yeung4 mui4; Shanghainese: ), , Chinese bayberry, Japanese bayberry, red bayberry, yumberry, waxberry, or Chinese strawberry (and often mistranslated from Chinese as arbutus) is a subtropical tree grown for its sweet, crimson to dark purple-red, fruit. It is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree growing up to high, with smooth gray bark and a uniform spherical to hemispherical crown. It is dioecious, with separate male and female plants. It tolerates poor acidic soils. The root system is deep, with no obvious taproot. The fruit is spherical, in diameter, with a knobby"
"the gooseberry, though it may possibly be alluded to in a vague passage of Pliny the Elder's ""Natural History""; the hot summers of Italy, in ancient times as at present, would be unfavourable to its cultivation. Although gooseberries are now abundant in Germany and France, it does not appear to have been much grown there in the Middle Ages, though the wild fruit was held in some esteem medicinally for the cooling properties of its acid juice in fevers; while the old English name, ""Fea-berry"", still surviving in some provincial dialects, indicates that it was similarly valued in Britain, where"
"used to flavour beverages such as sodas, flavoured waters, or milk, and can be made into fruit wines and teas. Gooseberries can be preserved in the form of jams, dried fruit, or as the primary or a secondary ingredient in pickling, or stored in sugar syrup. Gooseberry The gooseberry ( or (American and northern British) or (southern British)), with scientific names Ribes uva-crispa (and syn. Ribes grossularia), is a species of ""Ribes"" (which also includes the currants). It is native to Europe, the Caucasus and northern Africa. The species is also sparingly naturalized in scattered locations in North America. Gooseberry"
"succulent center from which radiate many fine, pale lines. The flavor is subacid to quite acid; the flavor is suggested to be similar to that of the gooseberry or strawberry. The two botanical varieties are: ""Zhong hua"" (Chinese gooseberry), ""jing li"" (northern pear gooseberry), ""ruan zao"" (soft date gooseberry), and ""mao hua"" (may be tight- or loose-haired) are the four main cultivars of this species in China. 'Abbott', 'Allison', 'Bruno', 'Hayward', Monty ('Montgomery'), and 'Greensill' are the most significant cultivars in New Zealand. In 1847, specimens of the plant were collected by the agent for the Royal Horticultural Society, London."
"production. MacLoughlin’s truck was commandeered for army use during the outbreak of war and as a result, he was forced to sell his property and enter into a shared cropping arrangement with another farmer. In 1955, MacLoughlin bought out his partner, purchasing his land back along with an additional 38 acres and planting it all to Chinese gooseberries. During the war around 550 cases of the fruit were marketed each season with the fruit proving popular with American servicemen in New Zealand. This provided the opportunity for the previously domestically-consumed fruit industry to expand by exporting to an international market."
"Ribes hirtellum Ribes hirtellum is a North American species of gooseberry known by the common names American gooseberry, hairy-stem gooseberry, hairy gooseberry, and wedge-leaf gooseberry, native to Canada and to the northeastern and north-central United States. Cultivated gooseberries are derived from this species and from ""Ribes uva-crispa"". Whereas ""R. uva-crispa"" crops have been devastated by American gooseberry mildew, ""Podosphaera mors-uvae"" (syn: ""Sphaerotheca mors-uvae""), which was accidentally introduced to Europe, ""R. hirtellum"" is resistant. It is one of four American species that have been interbred with ""R. uva-crispa"" to produce resistant cultivars similar to the original ""R. uva-crispa"" cultivars. Cultivar 'Houghton'"
"is one of those obtained by crossing ""R. uva-crispa"" with ""R. hirtellum"". Ribes hirtellum Ribes hirtellum is a North American species of gooseberry known by the common names American gooseberry, hairy-stem gooseberry, hairy gooseberry, and wedge-leaf gooseberry, native to Canada and to the northeastern and north-central United States. Cultivated gooseberries are derived from this species and from ""Ribes uva-crispa"". Whereas ""R. uva-crispa"" crops have been devastated by American gooseberry mildew, ""Podosphaera mors-uvae"" (syn: ""Sphaerotheca mors-uvae""), which was accidentally introduced to Europe, ""R. hirtellum"" is resistant. It is one of four American species that have been interbred with ""R. uva-crispa"" to"
"can be an allergen for some individuals, including children. The most common symptoms are unpleasant itching and soreness of the mouth, with wheezing as the most common severe symptom; anaphylaxis may occur. Kiwifruit Kiwifruit (often abbreviated as kiwi), or Chinese gooseberry, is the edible berry of several species of woody vines in the genus ""Actinidia"". The most common cultivar group of kiwifruit ('Hayward') is oval, about the size of a large hen's egg ( in length and in diameter). It has a fibrous, dull greenish-brown skin and bright green or golden flesh with rows of tiny, black, edible seeds. The"
"Lycium chinense Lycium chinense is one of two species of boxthorn in the family Solanaceae from which the goji berry or wolfberry is harvested, the other being ""Lycium barbarum"". Two varieties are recognized, ""L. chinense"" var. ""chinense"" and ""L. chinense"" var. ""potaninii"". It is grown in the south of China, while ""L. barbarum"" is grown in the north, primarily in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. It is also known as Chinese boxthorn, Chinese matrimony-vine, Chinese teaplant, Chinese wolfberry, wolfberry, and Chinese desert-thorn. Wolfberry species are deciduous woody perennial plants, growing 1–3 m high, somewhat shorter than ""L. barbarum"". The stems"
"in Ilokano), if not widely, and in Cambodia (called kantuet) and Thailand (called mayom). In Grenada, the fruit is called a damsel. In St. Lucia, the fruit is known as ""see-wet"". In the United States, it is found in Hawaii, and occasionally southern parts of Texas, Florida. It is also found in Puerto Rico (where the fruit is called grosella), Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname (where it's called ronde birambi), US Virgin Islands, Peru and Brazil. அரை நெல்லிக்காய்(""arainellikai"", in Tamil-தமிழ்), ନରକୋଳି(""narakoLi"", in Odisha), The Otaheite gooseberry prefers moist soil. It can be cultivated in a variety of ways—budding,"
"Symphoricarpos Symphoricarpos, commonly known as the snowberry, waxberry, or ghostberry, is a small genus of about 15 species of deciduous shrubs in the honeysuckle family, Caprifoliaceae. With the exception of the Chinese coralberry, ""S. sinensis"", which is indigenous to western China, all species are native to North and Central America. The name of the genus is derived from the Ancient Greek words (), meaning ""to bear together"", and (), meaning ""fruit"". It refers to the closely packed clusters of berries the species produce. ""Symphoricarpos"" leaves are long, rounded, entire or with one or two lobes at the base. The flowers"
"Chinese hawthorn is the traditional fruit used for the skewering, but in recent times vendors have also used various other fruits, such as cherry tomatoes, mandarin oranges, strawberries, blueberries, pineapples, kiwifruit, bananas, or grapes. The pits and seeds of the hawthorn are emptied out and are commonly filled with sweet red bean paste before being skewered and dipped. Tanghulu Tanghulu () also called bingtanghulu, is a traditional Chinese snack of candied Crataegus pinnatifida, also known as mountain hawthorn, Chinese haw, Chinese hawthorn or Chinese hawberry. It is also called shanzha(山楂), which is a chinese fruit. People mistaken tanghulu for regular"
"The common English name, ""wolfberry"", has unknown origin. It may have arisen from the mistaken assumption that the Latin name ""Lycium"" was derived from Greek λύκος (""lycos"") meaning ""wolf"". In the English-speaking world, the name ""goji berry"" has been used since around 2000. The word ""goji"" is an approximation of the pronunciation of ""gǒu qǐ"" (pinyin for 枸杞), the name for the berry producing plant ""L. chinense"" in several Chinese dialects, including Hokkien and Shanghainese. In technical botanical nomenclature, ""L. barbarum"" is called matrimony vine while ""L. chinese"" is Chinese desert-thorn. Young wolfberry shoots and leaves are harvested commercially as"
"for its decorative white fruit and wildlife gardening. It is also a useful landscaping plant due to its extreme versatility—tolerating sun, shade, heat, cold, drought, and inundation. Symphoricarpos Symphoricarpos, commonly known as the snowberry, waxberry, or ghostberry, is a small genus of about 15 species of deciduous shrubs in the honeysuckle family, Caprifoliaceae. With the exception of the Chinese coralberry, ""S. sinensis"", which is indigenous to western China, all species are native to North and Central America. The name of the genus is derived from the Ancient Greek words (), meaning ""to bear together"", and (), meaning ""fruit"". It refers"
"it was planted in gardens at a comparatively early period. William Turner describes the gooseberry in his ""Herball"", written about the middle of the 16th century, and a few years later it is mentioned in one of Thomas Tusser's quaint rhymes as an ordinary object of garden culture. Improved varieties were probably first raised by the skilful gardeners of Holland, whose name for the fruit, ""Kruisbezie"", may have been corrupted into the present English vernacular word. Towards the end of the 18th century the gooseberry became a favourite object of cottage-horticulture, especially in Lancashire, where the working cotton-spinners raised numerous"
"Actinidiaceae The Actinidiaceae are a small family of flowering plants commonly known as the Chinese gooseberry family. The family has three genera and about 360 species and is a member of the order Ericales. They are temperate and subtropical woody vines, shrubs, and trees, native to Asia (""Actinidia"" or kiwifruit, ""Clematoclethra"", and ""Saurauia"") and Central America and South America (""Saurauia"" only). ""Saurauia"", with its 300 species, is the largest genus in this family. Although now confined to Asia and tropical Central and South America, evidence indicates in the past the family had a wider distribution. The now extinct genus ""Parasaurauia"""
"its introduction to England is not known, but sources since the mid-19th century attribute the common name, ""Cape gooseberry"" to this fact. One suggestion is that the name properly refers to the calyx surrounding the fruit like a cape, possibly an example of false etymology, because it does not appear in publications earlier than the mid-20th century. Not long after its introduction to South Africa, ""P. peruviana"" was introduced into Australia, New Zealand, and various Pacific islands. In the wild, Cape gooseberry grows in forests, forest margins, riparian and uncultivated locations. In South America, it grows at high elevations of"
"gooseberry, namely """" (""Jo"") and """" (""Sta""). Following German pronunciation of ""J"", it may be pronounced ""yostaberry"" in English. The first cultivar was made available to the public in 1977. A number of varieties have been developed since then by various developers. The nearly black berry, which is smaller than a gooseberry and a bit larger than a blackcurrant, is edible both raw and cooked. It is described as having a taste intermediate between a gooseberry and a blackcurrant, with the gooseberry flavor more dominant in the unripe fruit, and the blackcurrant notes developing as the fruit ripens. The ripe"
"glandular hairs. Flowers are greenish-white, and the bristly fruits white to greenish and pleasant-tasting. Ribes cynosbati Ribes cynosbati is a North American species of shrubs in the currant family. It is native to eastern and central United States and Canada, with several common names including prickly gooseberry, eastern prickly gooseberry, dogberry, dog bramble, and ""groseillier des chiens"" (in Québec). It grows in rich forests, rocky slopes, and open heaths from New Brunswick south along the Appalachian Mountains to northern Alabama and west as far as Manitoba, the Dakotas and Oklahoma. ""Ribes cynosbati"" attains a height of up to 150 cm"
"""kruisbes"" or the allied German ""Krausbeere"", or of the earlier forms of the French ""groseille"". Alternatively, the word has been connected to the Middle High German krus (curl, crisped), in Latin as ""grossularia"". However, the ""Oxford English Dictionary"" takes the obvious derivation from ""goose"" and ""berry"" as probable because ""the grounds on which plants and fruits have received names associating them with animals are so often inexplicable that the inappropriateness in the meaning does not necessarily give good grounds for believing that the word is an etymological corruption"". The French for gooseberry is ""groseille à maquereau"", translated as ""mackerel berries"","
"flowers hanging pendent from the branches. Each flower has five reflexed red-purple sepals around a tube-shaped ring of smaller white or pinkish petals, the stamens and stigmas protruding. The fruit is a red or purple berry up to 2.5 centimeters long which is covered in thick, long spines. Among other currants and gooseberries with overlapping ranges, such as mountain gooseberry (""Ribes montigenum"") or wax currant (""Ribes cereum""), the sierra gooseberry is especially notable for the large size and extreme spininess of its berries, and for the absence of a noticeable dried flower remnant at the end of the fruit. Seeds"
"and ""Lycium chinense"", whose fruits (wolfberries or goji berries) are an important traditional food crop in China and have recently become a popular health food all over the world. The generic name ""Lycium"" is derived from the Greek word λυκιον (""lykion""), which was applied by Pliny the Elder (23-79) and Pedanius Dioscorides (ca. 40-90) to a plant known as dyer's buckthorn. It was probably a ""Rhamnus"" species and was named for Lycia (Λυκία), the ancient southern Anatolian region in which it grew. The berry is called ""lycii fructus"" (""lycium fruit"") in old Latin pharmacological texts. ""Lycium"" are shrubs, often thorny,"
"Jostaberry The jostaberry (""Ribes"" × ""nidigrolaria"") is a complex-cross fruit bush in the genus ""Ribes"", involving three original species, the black currant ""R. nigrum"", the North American coastal black gooseberry ""R. divaricatum"", and the European gooseberry ""R. uva-crispa"". It is similar to ""Ribes × culverwellii"", the Jochelbeere, which is descended from just two of these species, ""R. nigrum"" and ""R. uva-crispa"". The cultivated plants are tetraploid. They are descended from two separate first-generation crosses, both of which produced very few fruit. Fertile tetraploids were produced using colchicine. The name ""Jostaberry"" was created via combining the German words for blackcurrant and"
"rings, christened lyciumins A and B. The leaves are known to contain the flavonoids quercetin 3-O-rutinoside-7-O-glucoside, kaempferol 3-O-rutinoside-7-O-glucoside, rutin, nicotiflorin, isoquercitrin, quercetin, kaempferol damascenone, choline, scopoletin, vanillic acid, salicylic acid, and nicotinic acid. From the flowers, diosgenin, β-sitosterol, and lanosterol have been isolated. Lycium barbarum Lycium barbarum is a tree native from southeastern Europe and Asia. It is one of two species of boxthorn in the family Solanaceae from which the goji berry or wolfberry is harvested, the other being ""Lycium chinense"". Common names of the plant in English include Chinese wolfberry, Chinese boxthorn, Himalayan goji, Tibetan goji, mede berry,"
"and western Asia, growing naturally in alpine thickets and rocky woods in the lower country, from France eastward, well into the Himalayas and peninsular India. In Britain, it is often found in copses and hedgerows and about old ruins, but the gooseberry has been cultivated for so long that it is difficult to distinguish wild bushes from feral ones, or to determine where the gooseberry fits into the native flora of the island. Common as it is now on some of the lower slopes of the Alps of Piedmont and Savoy, it is uncertain whether the Romans were acquainted with"
"pendent from the branches. The flower has five sepals in shades of deep red or green with a red tinge, which are reflexed upward. At the center is a tubular corolla of white or pinkish petals around five stamens and two longer styles. The fruit is an edible red berry about a centimeter wide which is covered in stiff spines. Ribes californicum Ribes californicum, with the common name hillside gooseberry, is a North American species of currant. It is endemic to California, where it can be found throughout many of the California Coast, Transverse, and Peninsular Ranges in local habitat"
"to three flowers which hang from leaf axils. The showy flower has five pointed sepals in shades of purple-red which are reflexed upward. At the center is a tubular corolla of white or pink-tinged petals around five stamens and two styles. The fruit is a bristly berry up to 2 centimeters wide which is bright red, ripening purple. Ribes amarum Ribes amarum is a species of currant known by the common name bitter gooseberry. It is endemic to California, where it is known from mountains, foothills, and canyons. Its habitat includes Chaparral. ""Ribes amarum"" is a shrub growing to one"
"Gai lan Gai lan (""Brassica oleracea"" var. ""alboglabra"") is the Cantonese name and jie lan is the Mandarin name for a vegetable that is also known as Chinese broccoli or Chinese kale. It is a leaf vegetable with thick, flat, glossy blue-green leaves with thick stems, and flower heads similar to but much smaller than broccoli, another ""Brassica oleracea"" cultivar, but gai lan is in the group ""alboglabra"" (from Latin ""albus"" ""white"" and ""glabrus"" ""hairless""). Its flavor is very similar to that of broccoli, but slightly more bitter. It is also noticeably stronger. Broccolini is a hybrid between broccoli and"
"Baobing Baobing (), also known by its Taiwanese Hokkien name Tsuabing (), is a shaved ice dessert found in Taiwan. It is especially popular during the summer. Baobing was eaten in China as early as the seventh century AD. The dessert consists of a large mound of ice shavings with various toppings on top. A wide variety toppings exist, but the most common ones include sugar water, condensed milk, adzuki beans, mung beans, and tapioca balls. Fruit are also used according to the season. Mango baobing is typically only available in the summer, while strawberry baobing is available in the"