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Actinidia arguta

Botanic Family

Actinidiaceae

Author

(Siebold & Zuccarini) Planchon ex Miquel

Propagation

C.S.

Cultivated

C, fruit with cultivars

Offspring

Actinidia arguta 'Ananasnaya', Actinidia arguta 'Issai', Actinidia arguta 'Meader Female', Actinidia arguta 'Male' (A. arguta 'Meader Male'), Actinidia arguta 'Podsnaja', Actinidia arguta 'Rannaja', Actinidia arguta 'Uroshainaja'

Common Names

• Tara Vine
• Yang-Tao
• Hardy Kiwi
• Siberian Gooseberry
• Ruan zao mi hou tao (Pinyin)
• Saru-nashi (Japan)
• Kokuwa (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Anhui
• Chongqing
• Fujian
• Gansu
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hebei
• Heilongjiang
• Henan
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangxi
• Jilin
• Liaoning
• Shaanxi
• Shanding
• Shanxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• Hokkaido
• Honshu
• Kyushu
• Shikoku - Japan
• Korea
• Kuril Islands
• Primorye
• Sakhalin Oblast - Russia

Natural Habitats

• Montane forest
• thickets
• streamsides

Flowering Times

• Apr (China)
• May-Jul (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Aug-Oct (China)

Large deciduous twining climber to 7m glabrescent branchlets, leaves to 120mm x 100mm with serrate margins glabrous above & glabrous to rusty-tomentose beneath. Axillary or lateral rusty-puberulous cymes of fragrant 25mm diameter greenish-yellow or white flowers with black or dark purple anthers, staminate flowers with 5 sepals to 7mm & white petals to 12mm x 7mm, glabrous fruit green-yellow or purple-red when mature, ovoid to oblong to 30mm long

Edible fruit

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• Gouldstone 1983
• Warrington 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• RHS A-Z
• GWC 1997
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• JAA
• FOJ