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Actinidia kolomikta

Botanic Family

Actinidiaceae

Author

(Maximowicz & Ruprecht) Maximowicz

Propagation

C.S.

Cultivated

C, ornamental & fruit with cultivars

Offspring

Actinidia kolomikta 'All Purpose', Actinidia kolomikta 'Anansja Mitschurina', Actinidia kolomikta 'Arctic Beauty', Actinidia kolomikta 'Arnold Arboretum', Actinidia kolomikta 'Klara Zetkin', Actinidia kolomikta 'Krupnoplodnaya'

Common Names

• Kolomikta Vine
• Variegated Kiwi Vine
• Manchurian Gooseberry
• Gou zao mi hou tao (Pinyin)
• Miyama-mata-tabi (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Chongqing
• Gansu
• Hebei
• Heilongjiang
• Hubei
• Jiangsu
• Jilin
• Liaoning
• Shaanxi
• Shanxi
• Sichuan
• Xizang
• Yunnan - China
• Hokkaido
• Honshu - Japan
• Korea
• Kuril Islands
• Primorye
• Sakhalin
• Siberia - Russia

Natural Habitats

• Montane forest
• thickets.

Flowering Times

• Apr-Jul (China)
• Jun-Jul (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Sep- Oct (China)

Large deciduous woody twining shrub to 7m, glabrescent branches. Mucronate leaves with serrulate margins, splashed pink & white to 150mm x 125mm setose or pubescent on both surfaces. Axillary puberulous up to 3-flowered cymes or fascicles with minute bracts, fragrant pendulous 20mm white or pink flowers, 5 purple-red glabrous sepals to 6mm x 4mm with ciliate margins, 5 pale pink petals to 10mm x 7mm. Fruit glabrous, yellow-green to 25mm x 12mm sweet, pale orange when ripe.

Fruit edible, juice of unripe berries used

Further References

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