A New Hairless Baby Kiwifruit ‘Bangwoori’

Commercial planting of kiwifruit in Korea is mainly done with ‘Hayward’. Consumers and producers’ choice of cultivars and the enjoyment of this attractive fruit with abundant vitamin C are very limited. We have had breeding programs to improve the dominant cultivar, ‘Hayward’, and to diversify marketable cultivars having such characters as novel flesh color, hairlessness, etc. since 1984. ‘Bangwoori’ was born as a cross of mother plant Actinidia arguta collected from Korean mountains and the pollinizer A. deliciosa ‘Tomuri’. It has a mouthful fruit size without skin hair. It was selected firstly in 2000 and finally released in 2006 after evaluation of characteristics for more than 3 years. It has green flesh color, no hair on fruit skin, 21 g of average fruit weight, 14.5°Brix of soluble solids content and picking is usually done in early to mid October. It has green skin in early time of fruit enlargement, and scab-like brown spot or stripe appears partially in late fruit development. Shading of canopy might cause early defoliation.