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Actinidia rufa

Plants

Family: Actinidiaceae · Genus: Actinidia

Actinidia rufa

Stuart, G. A. (George Arthur), d. 1911; Smith, F. Porter (Frederick Porter), 1833-1888 · public_domain

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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. As a crop wild relative of kiwifruit, it is being studied for its resistance to frost and to bacterial canker of kiwifruit.

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