Taxon: Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev.) C. F. Liang & A. R. Ferguson

Common names:

• Chinese-gooseberry   (Source: Websters Dict as A. chinensis)
  
• chinesische Stachelbeere   (Source: Zander ed17 )
  
• groseille de Chine   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• kiwi   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• kiwi de Chine   (Source: Zander ed17 )
  
• Kiwifrucht   (Source: Zander ed16 )
  
• kiwifruit   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• strawberry-peach   (Source: Food Feed Crops US )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: beverage base; fruit   (fide L Edible Pl; Testolin & Ferguson 1997)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  

Distributional range:

Native:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Fujian, Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang

Other:

• also cultivated

References:

• Atkinson, R. G. et al. 1997. The allopolyploid origin of kiwifruit, Actinidia deliciosa (Actinidiaceae). Pl. Syst. Evol. 205:111–124.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16)
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. (Zander ed17)
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl) [= A. chinensis].
• Liang, C. F. & A. R. Ferguson. 1984. Guihaia 4:181.
• Liang, C. F. & A. R. Ferguson. 1986. The botanical nomenclature of the kiwifruit and related taxa. New Zealand J. Bot. 24:183–184.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Testolin, R. & A. R. Ferguson. 1997. Isozyme polymorphism in the genus Actinidia and the origin of the kiwifruit genome. Syst. Bot. 22:685–700.
• Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict) [= A. chinensis].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Actinidia deliciosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Actinidia deliciosa. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Actinidia chinensis var. deliciosa (A. Chev.) A. Chev.
  
• (=) Actinidia chinensis var. hispida C. F. Liang
  
• (≡) Actinidia latifolia var. deliciosa A. Chev. (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Actinidia deliciosa (A. Chev.) C. F. Liang & A. R. Ferguson:

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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