Those with high-end names, fruit / nuts of native origin.

Nuts and fruits are indispensable in Chinese New year goods, such as American almonds, Hawaiian walnuts, Brazilian pine nuts, California pistachios, Fijian fruits, New Zealand kiwi nuts and so on. These dried fruits or fruits with the name of the place of origin sound more high-end than ordinary nuts and fruits, in fact, these are routines! Has deceived us deeply for many years. Today, let's take a good look at those high-end names, in fact, ordinary fruits and dried fruits.

American almonds are native to Asia, Hawaiian walnuts are from Australia, Brazilian pine nuts are from the Himalayas of Asia, California pistachios are also plants from the Middle East, Fiji has never had Fijian fruits, and New Zealand kiwi fruits are from China.

1. American almonds, which are actually Badan wood in Xinjiang.

American big almonds, the name sounds like they are almonds produced from apricots from the United States, in fact, the United States really did not have this kind of "big almonds" plant. The real body of the big almond plant in the United States is called almond, which is a subgenus of Prunus in Rosaceae, also known as Badan apricot. It is native to Asia minor, Syria and Iran. Xinjiang is also one of the places of origin in China. Almond kernel is commonly known as Badanmu or Badamu in Xinjiang. Almond is called badam in Persian. This name actually comes from the Persian name for almond. However, this plant is not distributed in North America. Similarly, although this dried fruit is called almond, strictly speaking, it is not apricot.

Almond is an ancient traditional dried fruit tree, which has been planted in West and Central Asia for a long time. Almond edible comes from their drupes. As a result of long-term cultivation, almond has produced many edible, medicinal and ornamental types all over the world.

Compared with the names of almond and almond, "American almond" is more well-known. The reason for such a name is that after almond was introduced from the Middle East in the early 19th century, through seed selection, breeding and commercial variety development and cultivation, the American almond industry was formed in the 1980s, and the United States became the largest producer of almond in the world. After commercial development, almond almond has a very foreign-style trade name "American big almond".

2. "Brazilian pine nuts"-from the Himalayas

Brazilians say they have never seen the fruit "Brazilian pine nuts", which means that Brazilian pine nuts never grow in Brazil. All the pine plants in the whole earth are actually distributed in the northern hemisphere. in other words, there are no pine trees in the southern hemisphere. (the scene was once very awkward ~)

There is a kind of tree in Brazil, called Brazilian pine in English, which is translated as Brazilian pine, but this plant is not pine at all, but Cunninghamia lanceolata. The English name of Brazilian pine nut is chilgoza pine. This chilgoza is a place name. It comes from Urdu and is the national language of Pakistan. The real name of Brazilian pine is Xizang, which belongs to the genus Pinus. It is distributed in the northwestern Himalayas, from India, Pakistan to Afghanistan, and also in China. It is mainly produced in the Zada Mountains west of Xizang.

Xizang white bark pine growth environment is very strict, although the taste is first-class, but the yield is not high. Most of the Brazilian pine nuts we eat today come from the primeval forests of the Himalayan countries, which are one of the most important cash crops for local tribal members. Xizang's white bark pine seeds are very expensive and can sell for as much as $20 to $53 per kilogram.

Brazilian pine nut is the trade name of Xizang Pinus elliottii. The name of the commodity does not have to be accurate, but it must be made to look noble, especially if pine nuts are to be sold so expensive, they must have a particularly rare sense of foreign land, so in China, Xizang's pine nuts have been advertised as "Brazilian pine nuts".

3. California pistachios-tourists from Central Asia

The hard shell of "pistachio" will crack at the front end after ripening, revealing the green and red nuts inside, so there is the very festive and auspicious trade name of "pistachio". When pistachio first entered the Chinese market, in order to show its rich and magnificent identity, it also had another trade name, "American pistachio" or "California pistachio". So that many people think that pistachio is a plant of California in the United States.

In fact, the tree that can grow pistachios does not come from the United States, but from Central Asia. This kind of nut was cultivated and eaten in Central Asia a long time ago, and archaeology shows that pistachios became a common food for the local people as early as 6750 BC. During the Roman period, pistachios entered Rome from Syria. To this day, Iran is still the world's largest producer of pistachios.

From 1904 to 1905, Americans introduced cold-tolerant pistachios from China to California, and gradually began to develop pistachio planting industry. The history of growing pistachios in the United States is actually not long, with small-scale cultivation in California in the 1950s. However, it is true that pistachio will become a dried fruit industry without the promotion of American businessmen. California growers have promoted this kind of nuts from Asia and achieved great commercial success in a short period of more than 20 years. But in any case, pistachios are native to Asia.

4. "Hawaiian fruit"-originally from Australia

Hawaiian fruit is known as one of the most delicious nuts in the world, but its origin is not Hawaii, but Australia. Its original name is macadamia nut. The plant was first discovered by British botanist and explorer Alan Cunningham in the rainforest south of Brisbane, Australia, in 1828. Although locals have always collected the nuts for consumption, Cunningham was afraid to try its taste because there were so many poisonous plants in Australia.

Westerners found that macadamia nuts were delicious, eaten and recorded in the Brisbane Botanical Garden in Australia. In 1858, there was a naughty boy in the botanical garden. after he happily ate the macadamia nuts introduced in the botanical garden, he kept alive without any adverse reaction, so everyone knew that it was really delicious. Later, it was tested on a small scale in Australia. Later, because macadamia nuts were widely grown in Hawaii, macadamia nuts gradually replaced its original name "macadamia nuts" and sold all over the world.

5. Kiwifruit of New Zealand-kiwifruit from the mountains of China

Before 1904, New Zealand did not have the later world-famous fruit "kiwi fruit". That year, a New Zealand lady named Isabel brought the delicious kiwifruit introduced in Yichang, Hubei Province back to New Zealand, and began the history of commercial cultivation of kiwifruit. Because the fruit, developed by New Zealand horticultural growers, has a brown color, short hairs on the skin and a stalk that resembles the beak, it is called a kiwi fruit because of its strange appearance, and the name of the kiwi fruit has spread all over the world.

The name of kiwifruit has existed since ancient times. Li Shizhen wrote very clearly in the Compendium of Materia Medica in the Ming Dynasty: "it is shaped like a pear, its color is like a peach, and macaques like to eat, so they have various names." Kiwifruit has developed from a pure wild plant to a popular market fruit, which has important commercial value. Kiwifruit imported from China has been commercially developed in New Zealand, forming a huge industry and bringing wealth to New Zealand.

When it re-entered the Chinese market, in the face of this high-end foreign fruit, most people mistakenly thought it originated in New Zealand. However, today, kiwifruit has also become an important cultivated fruit in China, and we have unparalleled kiwifruit resources, so the world kiwifruit market and variety development in the future will inevitably return to its native land.

6. Fijian fruit-all pots of Chinese translation

Fiji fruit, many people are not familiar with it. "Fijian fruit" is a tropical and subtropical fruit, because it is commercially cultivated by New Zealanders, and the fruit is sweet, juicy and fragrant, and is known as the "king of New Zealand fruits". However, Fijian fruit has nothing to do with Fiji, and its origin is not New Zealand. It originated in Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina in South America. It is called Fiji fruit because it used to be called Feijoa sellowiana in Latin literature. Because of this Feijoa, Wangwen business, it was misread as Fiji.

Fijian fruit is also called Philippine avocado. Philippine avocado is cultivated in Yunnan and South China. As a minority fruit, this "fruit tree" is mainly used in garden greening. Of course, compared with the ordinary Philippine avocado, plus a geographical name thousands of miles away, its price is immediately different.