Abstract
The lack of detailed descriptions of the cultivars of Chinese gooseberry (Actinidia chinensis Planch. var. chinensis Li) grown commercially in New Zealand for export as kiwi fruit to United States has led to some confusion in naming. This paper provides recognition features of two male and six female cultivars. The plants studied were grown near Auckland at Oratia Research Orchard of the Plant Diseases Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Auckland. It is believed that all the cultivars grown commercially in New Zealand came from one line of seed and that the first vine from this seed fruited in 1910 (Mouat 1958). The subsequent development of cultivars is a reflection of the variability of Chinese gooseberry, a feature so prominent that it creates difficulties in finding characters that are sufficiently distinctive and consistent to separate the cultivars. The following characters, taken in combination, give adequate separation of the cultivars at flowering and fruiting.
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