Actinidia umbelloides C.F.Liang

Species

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Characteristics

Climbing shrubs, large, deciduous. Branchlets glabrous, lenticels numerous, conspicuous; pith brown, solid. Petiole 4-5 cm, glabrous; leaf blade adaxially dark green, ovate or oblong-ovate to rhombic-suborbicular, 6-14 × 4-8 cm, thinly leathery, both surfaces glabrous, veins conspicuous abaxially, lateral veins 6 or 7 pairs, reticulate veins dense and conspicuous with distinct and raised parallel cross-bars, base obtuse to rounded, oblique, margin callose-crenate-serrate, apex acute or obtuse. Female inflorescences 3-5-flowered, umbelliform, all pedicels crowded on peduncles; peduncles 2-2.5 cm; pedicels ca. 1 cm, both surfaces slightly rusty tomentose; bracts subulate, ca. 3 mm. Flowers unknown. Fruit ovoid, 1.5-2.2 cm, glabrous, lenticels brownish, apex rounded; persistent sepals densely velutinous. Seeds 1.5-2 mm. Fl. May, fr. Nov.
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A climbing shrub. It loses its leaves during the year. The fruit are oval and up to 2.2 cm long.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support climber
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality dioecy
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It grows between 1200-2000 m altitude in southern Yunnan. It grows in subtropical broadleaved evergreen forest.
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The fruit are eaten raw.
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Edible fruits
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 60 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 10
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Distribution

Actinidia umbelloides world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:903450-1
WFO ID wfo-0000519360
COL ID 9THT
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Synonyms

Actinidia umbelloides Actinidia umbelloides var. umbelloides

Lower taxons

Actinidia umbelloides var. flabellifolia