On a garden visit more than 20 years ago Elizabeth Bullivant and her late husband, Anthony, were impressed by the sight of a kiwi fruit vine growing through an old tree. They came away determined to ...

Precious poop Large-seeded trees rely on native birds for their survival, New Zealand biologists have confirmed. The researchers say this is the first quantitive study of its kind and highlights the ...

• Kiwis are native to southern China, where they are known as “yang tao.” In the early 20th century, missionaries brought the fruit from China to New Zealand. • They are also known as Chinese ...

A 100-year-old kiwi tree was discovered recently in the Qinling Mountains, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province. It was immediately named by local residents as "kiwi tree king." Some netizens have ...

The two hard winters of recent years killed a lot of plants of the New Zealand tea tree, or leptospermum, because it is not fully hardy here. Many plants had survived for decades before that extreme ...

It's only recently that people have discovered that the fruit we know as kiwi was originally called something entirely different. The kiwi, recognised for its fuzzy brown exterior and tangy green ...

A New Zealand woman has set a new world record for climbing trees at the Australian Tree Climbing Championships. Nicki Ward-Allen climbed a 12 metre tree in 15.12 seconds. The championships are being ...

People are only now realising that kiwis originally had a completely different name. A kiwi is a fruit well known for its fuzzy brown skin and juicy, sweet/sour green flesh with tiny black seeds.