Man pays $1k for freak 'kiwi fruit'
By New Zealand correspondent Kerri Ritchie
Posted Tue May 5, 2009 10:11am AEST
Updated Tue May 5, 2009 10:55am AEST
TV still of a Kiwi-shaped Feijoa fruit
Choice: The Kiwi-shaped feijoa
* Video: Kiwi-shaped fruit fetches $784 (ABC News)
A New Zealand man has paid $NZ1,000 for a piece of fruit shaped like the country's national symbol, a kiwi.
Auckland mum Shavon Green found the freak-of-nature feijoa in her backyard.
"There were a couple of legitimate, regular feijoas and then there was this little fella that looked just like a kiwi," she said.
Her son was going to take the fruit in for show and tell, but then the Green family decided to put it up for auction on the internet.
A Christchurch businessman bid $NZ1,000 ($780) on the condition that half of the money go to charity.
Ms Green is now keeping her eyes peeled for more odd-shaped pieces.
"Someone said to me I better check my pear tree - I might find a partridge," she said.
The businessman plans to preserve the feijoa.
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