| Scientific Name: | Actinidia macrosperma |
| Common Name: | actinidia |
| Family Name: | Actinidiaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Vine - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | > 30m x 2 - 3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Pendulous, Spreading |
| Form: | Climbing |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Screening |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Elliptic, Ovate, Crenate, Entire, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, White, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Orange, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves ovate-elliptic, most 9-13cm long x 4-6cm wide, leathery when mature, petioles 2-3cm long; flowers white, sepals 2 or 3, petals 5-12 and 1-1.5cm long; fruit orange berry when mature, oval to round, 3-3.5cm, glabrous. Winter ID: twining stems, branchlets glabrous; leaf scar round to slightly flattened on top, buds < 2mm long; pith white, solid. | |