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Actinidia chinensis (kiwi)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Actinidia chinensis is a fruit tree and medicinal plant native to China. It is pollinated by bees.
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Infraspecies

Actinidia chinensis var. hispida (Chinese Gooseberry)
Actinidia chinensis var. setosa

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Dioecious
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Pollinators [1]  Bees, Insects, Lepidoptera
Scent [1]  The flowers are sweetly scented.
Structure [1]  Vine
Usage [1]  Paper is made from the bark; If the bark is removed in one piece from near the root and placed in hot ashes, it becomes very hard and can be used as a tube for a pencil; The plant is said to have insecticidal properties (no more details);
Height [1]  25 feet (7.5 m)
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Predators

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 6Frugivory and seed dispersal by the yellow-throated marten, Martes flavigula, in a subtropical forest of China, You-Bing Zhou, Eleanor Slade, Chris Newman, Xiao-Ming Wang and Shu-Yi Zhang, Journal of Tropical Ecology (2008) 24:219–223
♦ 7Frugivory and seed dispersal by a small carnivore, the Chinese ferret-badger, Melogale moschata, in a fragmented subtropical forest of central China, You-Bing Zhou, Liang Zhang, Yayoi Kaneko, Chris Newman, Xiao-Ming Wang, Forest Ecology and Management 255 (2008) 1595–1603
♦ 8DIETARY SHIFTS IN RELATION TO FRUIT AVAILABILITY AMONG MASKED PALM CIVETS (PAGUMA LARVATA) IN CENTRAL CHINA, YOUBING ZHOU, JINSHUO ZHANG, ELEANOR SLADE, LIBIAO ZHANG, FRANCISCO PALOMARES, JIN CHEN, XIAOMING WANG, AND SHUYI ZHANG, Journal of Mammalogy, 89(2):435–447, 2008
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0