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Actinidia foliage and fruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Ericales Family: Actinidiaceae Genus: Actinidia Lindl.
Species
Between 40-60; see text. Actinidia foliage & fruit - free use photo from [1] This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families See text The Ericales are a large and diverse order of dicotyledons. ... Genera Actinidia Clematoclethra Saurauia Ref: Delta 2002-08-04 Actiniaceae is a small family of plants. ... John Lindley (February 8, 1799 - November 1, 1865) was an English botanist. ...

Actinidia is a genus of woody plants native to temperate eastern Asia, occurring throughout most of China, Taiwan, Korea BUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTSECKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKS and Japan, and extending north to southeast Siberia and south into Indochina. The genus includes shrubs growing to 6 m tall, and vigorous, strong-growing vines, growing up to 30 m in tree canopies. A woody plant is any vascular plant that has a perennial stem that is above ground and covered by bark, that is, one that supports continued vegetative growth above ground from year to year. ... World map showing Asia. ... Korea refers to South Korea and North Korea together, which were a unified country until 1948. ... Siberia Siberia (Russian: , common English transliterations: Sibir’, Sibir; from the Tatar for “sleeping land”) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia. ... Indochina, or the Indochinese Peninsula, is a large peninsula in Southeast Asia. ... A willow shrub A shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 6 m tall. ... The term vine was originally a term for the plant on which grapes grew, from the word for wine (Greek oinos), for which grapes were grown. ... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. ...

The leaves are alternate, simple, with a dentate margin and a long petiole. The flowers are solitary or in axillary cymes, usually white, with five small petals. Most of the species are dioecious with separate male and female plants, but some are monoecious. The fruit is a large berry containing numerous small seeds; in most species the fruit is edible. In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ... Clivia miniata bears bright orange flowers. ... Cyme can refer to: Cyme, a botanical term a for a class of flower clusters (see inflorescence) characterized by the terminal flower in the cluster blooming first. ... Plant sexuality deals with the wide variety of sexual reproduction systems found across the plant kingdom. ... Plant sexuality deals with the wide variety of sexual reproduction systems found across the plant kingdom. ... Fruit stall in Barcelona, Catalonia. ... Several types of berries from the market, but none of these are true berries. ... SEED is a block cipher developed by the Korean Information Security Agency. ...

There are about 40-60 species of Actinidia: In biology, a species is the basic unit of biodiversity. ...

• Actinidia arguta (Kokuwa or Tara Vine). Fruit 10-15 g, with green edible skins and green flesh; hardier than A. deliciosa.
• Actinidia arisanensis
• Actinidia callosa
• Actinidia carnosifolia
• Actinidia chengkouensis
• Actinidia chinensis
• Actinidia chrysantha
• Actinidia cinerascens
• Actinidia cordifolia. Similar to A. arguta
• Actinidia coriacea
• Actinidia cylindrica
• Actinidia deliciosa (Yangtao or Chinese gooseberry). The Kiwifruit is a Cultivar Group of this species.
• Actinidia eriantha
• Actinidia farinosa
• Actinidia fasciculoides
• Actinidia fortunatii
• Actinidia fulvicoma
• Actinidia glauco-callosa
• Actinidia glaucophylla
• Actinidia globosa
• Actinidia gracilis
• Actinidia grandiflora
• Actinidia hemsleyana
• Actinidia henryi
• Actinidia holotricha
• Actinidia indochinensis
• Actinidia kolomikta (Kolomikta or Arctic Beauty). Fruit very small, 8 g or smaller; the hardiest species (to about -40°C); distinctive variegated foliage (even on wild plants, an unusual phenomenon).
• Actinidia laevissima
• Actinidia lanceolata
• Actinidia latifolia
• Actinidia leptophylla
• Actinidia liangguangensis
• Actinidia macrosperma
• Actinidia maloides
• Actinidia melanandra
• Actinidia melliana
• Actinidia obovata
• Actinidia pilosula
• Actinidia polygama (Silver Vine). Fruit small, 2-2.5 cm diameter, yellow.
• Actinidia purpurea. Fruit similar to A. arguta but red-fleshed.
• Actinidia rubricaulis
• Actinidia rubus
• Actinidia rudis
• Actinidia rufotricha
• Actinidia sabiaefolia
• Actinidia sorbifolia
• Actinidia stellato-pilosa
• Actinidia styracifolia
• Actinidia suberifolia
• Actinidia tetramera
• Actinidia trichogyna
• Actinidia ulmifolia
• Actinidia umbelloides
• Actinidia valvata
• Actinidia vitifolia
• Actinidia venosa

The Kiwifruit or Chinese Gooseberry is the edible fruit of a Cultivar Group of the woody vine Actinidia deliciosa and hybrids between this and other species in the genus Actinidia. ... This Osteospermum Pink Whirls is a successful cultivar. ... Variegation is the appearance of differently coloured zones in the leaves, and sometimes the stems, of plants. ...

Uses

For the edible fruit, see Kiwifruit. Some species are grown as ornamental plants, notably A. kolomikta, grown for its white- and pink- variegated leaves. The Kiwifruit or Chinese Gooseberry is the edible fruit of a Cultivar Group of the woody vine Actinidia deliciosa and hybrids between this and other species in the genus Actinidia. ... An ornamental is a plant variety that is grown for its beauty (in its end use), rather than commercial or other value. ...