Actinidia rufa

(Siebold & Zucc.) Planch. ex Miq.

ActinidiaceaeFruit

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit

The fruit is eaten.

Where to Find It

It grows in mountain forests between 1,000-2,000 m above sea level.

Asia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan,

Countries: United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei, Bhutan, China, Georgia, Indonesia, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mongolia, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

How to Identify

A climbing shrub. It is large and loses its leaves during the year. The flowering branches have reddish hairs. The leaves are oval and 4-16 cm long by 4-10 cm wide. The female flowers are in small groups and are white. The fruit is oval and 2-3 cm long.

Wikipedia

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Actinidia rufa is a species of flowering plant in the Chinese gooseberry family Actinidiaceae, native to Taiwan, some of the southwestern South Korean islands, the Ryukyu Islands, and southern and south-central Japan. A large climbing shrub, it is found in mountain forests at elevations from 1,000 to 2,000 m (3,300 to 6,600 ft). As a crop wild relative of kiwifruit, it is being studied for its resistance to frost and to bacterial canker of kiwifruit.