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Actinidia melanandra

Botanic Family

Actinidiaceae

Author

Franchet

Propagation

C.S.

Cultivated

C, fruit

Common Names

• Hei rui mi hou tao (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• Chongqing
• Fujian
• Gansu
• Guizhou
• Henan
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangxi
• Shaanxi
• Sichuan
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• montane forest
• thickets

Flowering Times

• May-Jun (China)

Fruiting Times

• Sep (China)

Deciduous climbing shrub to 7m with leticellate glabrescent reddish branches, coriaceous leaves to 95mm x 50mm with serrulate margin glabrous above pubescent beneath, 1-7 flowered cymes with minute bracts of 25mm greenish to yellowish-white flowers, 4-5 sepals to 7mm x 4mm, 5 petals to 13mm x 7mm, black anthers & 45mm long glabrous reddish-brown ovate fruit, leaf blades 135mm x 48mm

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• Warrington 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• FOC
• GWC 1997
• The Plant List 2
• JAA