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Actinidia chinensis

Botanic Family

Actinidiaceae

Author

Planchon

Propagation

S.C.L.

Cultivated

C, ornamental & fruit with cultivar

Offspring

Actinidia chinensis 'Aureo Variegata'

Common Names

• Zhonghua Mihoutao
• Ruanmao Mihoutao (Soft-haired Mihoutao)
• Zhonghua Mihoutao Ruanmao (Soft-haired Chinese Mihoutao)
• Guang Yangtao (Smooth Yangtao)
• Chinese Gooseberry
• Strawberry Peach
• Souris Vegetale (Vegetable Mouse)
• Yang-tau
• Zhong hua mi hou tao (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Anhui
• Fujian
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Henan
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• S Shaanxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Tibet
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China

Natural Habitats

• Thickets
• secondary forest
• forest
• forest edges
• shrubland
• montane thickets

Flowering Times

• Apr-May(China)

Fruiting Times

• Sep (China)

Large deciduous woody twining climbing shrub to 8m with reddish-brown glabrescent branches with lenticels, leaves to 170mm x 150mm puberulous above & stellate tomentose beneath, 1-3 flowered pubescent axillary cymes of fragrant 50mm orange-yellow flowers, 3-5 sepals to 10mm x 8mm brownish tomentose outside, 5 petals to 20mm x 12mm, followed by 45mm diameter yellow-green brown-hirsute fruits. Pubescent young branches . Dioecious

Edible fruit

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Warrington 1990
• Smith 1998
• Mobot
• FOC
• Chudian 2001
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• JAA