Among the hundreds of thousands of higher plants in the world, about 10,000 are plants for human consumption, feed, industrial use, medicinal use, and ornamental use, and the rest are wild plants that have not yet been found to be used. The fact that it has not been found for the time being is not the same as being useless forever. There are many plants in history that were once considered useless, and due to people's later discoveries, they are worth a hundred times, and the Chinese kiwifruit, known as the "king of fruits", is such a typical example.
Kiwifruit is a deciduous vine shrub that is about 5 to 8 meters tall. Its leaves are round and paper-thin, and its flowers are milky white at first, then turn yellow, and Yali is cute. The fruit ripens in August to October, round or oblong, fleshy and syrupy, fragrant and beautiful.
China is the hometown of kiwifruit, in the long past, wild kiwi fruit is grown in the mountains north and south of China's great river, self-reliant, let the macaque eat. Kiwifruit entered human life about 1,000 years ago, and the Tang Dynasty poet Cen Shan once had a verse "On the atrium well, a kiwi fruit". Ming Dynasty pharmacists once said that "its shape is like a pear, its color is like a peach, and the macaque monkey likes to eat, so it has its name".
Kiwifruit was first recognized by outsiders in 1899, when Wilson, a horticulturist sent by a famous British flower seedling company, introduced plants to the western part of Hubei Province, China, and quickly noticed this beautiful and fruity fruit tree and introduced it to Britain and the United States. But at the time, britain and the United States did not convert kiwifruit into commercial fruit. In their view, kiwifruit is just a popular ornamental plant. At the same time that Wilson introduced kiwifruit to the West, he also introduced this wild fruit to Westerners in Yichang, Hubei Province, and it turned out to be very popular. Because they think that kiwifruit tastes like the gooseberry that has been cultivated in the West for a long time, these Westerners call kiwifruit "Yichang gooseberry".
In 1903, a New Zealand female teacher named Isabel took advantage of the holidays to visit her sister in Yichang, Hubei Province. On her return home, Isabelle brought back some seeds of kiwifruit. In 1910, kiwifruit blossomed in the orchard of a new Zealand farmer.
Since the taste of kiwifruit is in line with the tastes of the locals, New Zealanders are constantly domesticating and improving the variety of kiwifruit. Coupled with suitable soil and climatic conditions, kiwifruit cultivation has been successful in New Zealand. By 1940, several orchards on New Zealand's North Island had produced considerable kiwifruit. In 1952, the kiwi fruit was first exported to London, England. Since then, the kiwifruit varieties cultivated by New Zealand have been gradually introduced to Australia, the United States, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, South Africa, France, Italy and Japan, and the kiwifruit has become an emerging fruit tree variety in the world. Today, kiwifruit is New Zealand's national treasure.
Kiwi fruit is extremely rich in vitamin C, 5 to 10 times higher than citrus and 20 to 28 times higher than apples. It also contains 8% to 16% glucose and citric acid. Therefore, canned, sauce, juice, preserved, crystal, wine, cake and other foods processed from kiwi fruit are not only tonics for the elderly and weak, children, but also high-level nutritional products for special operators such as high altitude, navigation, underground, plateau and pastoral areas.
Kiwi fruit also has considerable medicinal value. In addition to the fruit on some diseases in the human body, such as heart disease, hepatitis, intestinal dysfunction and other certain curative effects, its roots have the function of clearing heat and water, dispersing stasis and stopping bleeding; leaves can stop traumatic bleeding, but also the best green feed; tree bark can be made of paper. In recent years, after clinical verification, Chinese kiwifruit also has a certain anti-cancer effect. Because the nectar glands of kiwifruit are developed, aromatic and beautiful, it is a honey source plant and can extract spices.
The stem bark and pulp of kiwifruit contain glue, which can be extracted after soaking in water. This plant glue, in addition to being used in papermaking, printing and dyeing, chemical and other industrial sectors, has the characteristics of local materials, simple construction, low cost, strong and durable, dry and moisture-proof, elastic and bright and beautiful in construction projects, and is welcomed by the masses.