Actinidia arguta

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderEricales
5. FamilyActinidiaceae

Native toChina North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Kuril Is., Manchuria, Primorye, Sakhalin, Taiwan

Observations recorded7,651

Climbing shrubs, large, deciduous. Branchlets glabrous or rarely puberulent, tomentose when young, 7-15 cm; second-year branches grayish brown, glabrous, lenticels absent when young, small and inconspicuous when old; pith white to brown, lamellate. Petiole pinkish brown, 3-6(-10) cm, glabrous, sometimes rusty tomentose or setose; leaf blade abaxially green, adaxially dark green, usually ovate to broadly ovate to suborbicular, sometimes ovate-oblong, 6-12 × 5-10 cm, membranous to papery, abaxially glabrous to rusty tomentose to strigillose especially on midvein and lateral veins, barbate in axils of lateral veins or not, adaxially glabrous, midvein and lateral veins conspicuous abaxially, subconspicuous adaxially, lateral veins 5-7 pairs, straight or arcuate-ascending, anastomosing, veinlets reticulate, subconspicuous abaxially, inconspicuous adaxially, base rounded to cordate, rarely broadly cuneate, symmetrical or oblique, margin sharply serrate, apex abruptly acuminate. Inflorescences cymose, axillary or lateral, 1-7-flowered, brown to pale brown tomentose; peduncles 7-10 mm; pedicels 0.8-1.4 cm; bracts linear, 1-4 mm. Flowers greenish yellow or white, 1.2-2 cm in diam. when full

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🔬Museum specimens

Specimen records

232

With media

201

Family

Actinidiaceae

Collections

CHSC, RSA, YPM, MEL, MICH, CM

Recorded in

United States, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Korea, China

Wikidata facts

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Parent taxon

Actinidia

Image

Actinidia arguta fruit - hardy kiwi - Kiwibeere 05.jpg

Has use

food

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