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Actinidia callosa

Botanic Family

Actinidiaceae

Author

Lindley

Propagation

C.S.

Cultivated

C

Common Names

• Theki Phal (Nepali)
• Kokuwa
• Ying chi mi hou tao (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Bhutan
• Anhui
• Fujian
• Guangxi
• Hunan
• Jiangxi
• Taiwan
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• Sikkim - India
• Java
• Sumatra - Indonesia
• Japan
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Montane forest & scrub
• forest edges
• streamsides
• thickets

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jun (China)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Oct (China)

Large deciduous liana or climbing and trailing shrub to 7m with glabrescent branches with yellowish lenticels, serrate mostly glabrous leaves to 150mm x 90mm with serrulate margins , Dioecious 3-flowered axillary cymes of fragrant 25mm white or cream flowers with minute bracts, 5 sepals 6mm x 5mm, glabrous outside with pubescent margins, 5 petals to 10mm x 7mm. Glabrate enticellate fruit grey-green, oval-oblong to 50mm x 35mm

Edible young shoots & fruit

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Krussmann 1976
• Warrington 1990
• Huxley 1992
• P & R 1997
• Manandhar 2002
• GWC 1997
• FOC
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• Flora Malesiana
• JAA