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Max said: Everything I have been taught, and the fruits of a quick Google search, suggest that this question may be the odd one out - that actinidia chinensis did originate in China -
Indeed they did. I once sat through a long and extremely boring investment seminar calculated to make me reach into my back pocket and invest heavily in a kiwifruit orchard near Te Puke.
The one piece of information I did come away with (and with the contents of my wallet intact, of course), was that, as Max says, we stole Chinese gooseberries from the Chinese. Is there no end to the perfidy of New Zealanders onto a good thing? (rhetorical question, Oztralians need not reply).
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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