The nicer grocery store near me had all of the kiwi today: fuzzy, golden, hardy, and red. I haven’t had red before, so I splurged the $7/lb. Hardy kiwi were from Chile. Red kiwi is from Greece, I assume it’s A. chinensis?
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It’s A. chinensis ‘Hongyang’.
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How was its taste ?
Do you have an actual internal picture?
Thank you
Dov
I missed this thread… I don’t think Red Passion is Hongyang - ? - it is supposedly an improved selection of Hongyang. It is also in fact two varieties sold under that patented name, there is an early-ripening one and a late-ripening one. The above pictures look too yellow to me, my Hongyangs have no yellow in them (i.e. similar to @ramv).
There seem to be quite a few of these red-at-core varieties sprouting up these days, both in Europe and in China and Japan. Rainbow Red, Red Queen, RedVita, Zespri RubyRed, DongHong, etc. Many of these names are trademarks so some could be HongYang but I there are too many trademarked names for them to all be one variety. I can see why based on my HongYangs, they taste amazing. I just re-did my HongYang trellis so it will have more room to expand now.
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Dong Hong seems different from Hong Yang. Photos show it with a paler flesh than Hong Yang. I also saw a single retailer carry both of these so I assume they are different.
Another one that has this red eye is Chu Hong.
AFAIK, these are not available for sale in the US.
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How do you get scion for hongyang or yellow fuzzy kiwi? I am in northern VA. Are there any available locally?
Where did you find Hongyang?
Hi, i am Alex from Germany / Frankfurt.
I have these Red Kiwis plants in my garden from Italy, but not so successfull over the years:-), less space, a lot of Fig’s, Apricots, Bears, Plums, Peach, Persimmon…in a smal garden.
Red Kiwi’s are more sensitive than green(Hayward)/yellow(DORI) regarding to soil and location.
So fare i know, is Red-Passion a independent further development of the Wuhan Kiwis selection. In Italy and Grecce are the kiwi plantations.
Red Kiwis are delicious for me (the best), no tart, with exotic Mango-Strawbeery taste. You can’t store them for long, quikly soft not like the green one.
In France they have Red Kiwi “Wonder” (independent type): Plants see achat-vente-palmiers
In Italy (Plants grafted): KIWI Actinidia ROSSO ‘Exotic Red™’ see venditapiccolifrutti
In the supermarket we have also the “Jingold-Red”
In Spain they have Red-Kiwi “Oscar”
The Zespri RubyRed Kiwi i dont see fruits in the german supermarket or plant’s 
Regards
Alex
