General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Vine
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Plant Height: 10 to 20 feet
Leaves: Deciduous
Fruit: Showy
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: White
Other: White, maturing to a buff yellow shade.
Bloom Size: 1"-2"
Underground structures: Taproot
Suitable Locations: Espalier
Edible Parts: Fruit
Eating Methods: Raw
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Resistances: Rabbit Resistant
Humidity tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Pollinators: Bees
Various insects
Miscellaneous: Dioecious

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Common names
  • Kiwi Fruit
  • Chinese Gooseberry
  • Yang Tao
  • Kiwi
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Actinidia chinensis var. deliciosa
  • Synonym: Actinidia deliciosa
  • Synonym: Actinidia chinensis var. hispida

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Location: My garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2014-05-24
Photo by sedumzz
Photo by sedumzz
Location: My garden in Gent, Belgium
Date: 2010-06-17
Location: My garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2015-06-17

Stem, foliage and flower buds.

Date: 2009-07-19

photo credit: A. Barra
Location: My garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2014-07-14
Location: central Illinois
Date: 2012-06-06
Location: My garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2015-06-17
Location: My garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2013-06-27
Location: My garden, Gent, Belgium
Date: 2014-05-17

Photo by Radomil

Date: 2012-12-07
Location: My garden, Ghent, Belgium
Date: 2015-08-11
Comments:
  • Posted by bonitin (Ghent, Belgium - Zone 8a) on Jul 28, 2014 5:47 AM concerning plant:
    I had a male plant in the past. It made flowers, but of course no fruit as I didn't have a female.
    Now I have only a female plant as the male died due to Vine Weevils.
    As I had no more space for another male, I wasn't really expecting fruit on the female Kiwi vine, but to my surprise it does give fruit without a male!
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