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Actinidia polygama
Actinidia polygama
- Botanic Family
- Actinidiaceae
- Author
- (Siebold & Zuccarini) Planchon ex Maximowicz
- Propagation
- C.S.
- Cultivated
- C, fruit
Common Names
- Silver Vine
- Ge zao mi hou tao (Pinyin)
- Mata-tabi (Japan)
Geographical Habitats
- Anhui
- Chongquing
- Gansu
- Guizhou
- Hebei
- Heilongjiang
- Henan
- Hubei
- Hunan
- Jilin
- Liaoning
- Shaanxi
- Shandong
- Sichuan
- Yunnan - China
- Hokkaido
- Honshu
- Kyushu
- Shikoku - Japan
- Korea
- Kuril Islands
- Primorye
- Sakhalin Oblast - Russia
Natural Habitats
- Montane forest
- woodland and thickets
Flowering Times
- Jun-Jul (China)
- Jun-Jul (Japan)
Fruiting Times
Large deciduous woody twiner or shrub to 5m with glabrescent branches, white, yellowish or variegated mucronate leaves to 150mm x 85mm with serrulate margins usually glabrous above & setose on veins beneath. 1-3 flowered fascicles of fragrant 30mm pendulous white flowers, 5 glabrous sepals to 7mm x 4.5mm, 5 petals to 13mm x 10mm, yellow round orange glabrous berry to 40mm x 25mm
Leaves & salted fruit eaten by Japanese, fruit edible
Further References
- Rehder 1934
- Bean 1950
- Bailey 1976
- Krussmann 1976
- Warrington 1990
- Huxley 1992
- Mobot
- FOC
- RHS A-Z
- GWC 1997
- The Plant List 2
- JAA
- FOJ