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Actinidia kolomikta
Also called Arctic Beauty Kiwi, Manchurian Gooseberry, Hardy Kiwi, Kishmish, Kolomicta, Variegated Leaf Hardy Kiwi, Hardy Kiwifruit
A very hardy, deciduous climbing vine from northeast Asia, grown for its pink and white variegated leaves and small edible kiwi-like berries. It is dioecious, so you need both a male and a female plant to get fruit.
Actinidia kolomikta, the kolomikta, miyamatatabi, super-hardy kiwi, or variegated-leaf hardy kiwi, is a species of flowering plant in the family Actinidiaceae, native to temperate mixed forests of the Russian Far East, Korea, Japan and China (Eastern Asiatic Region).
Actinidia kolomikta is an ornamental plant for gardens and a houseplant. The plant was collected by Charles Maries in Sapporo, on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, where the plant was locally called miyamatatabi, in 1878, and sent to his patrons, Veitch Nurseries, who introduced it into Western horticulture.
Actinidia kolomikta is cultivated in cold temperate regions as an ornamental plant, largely for the striking random variegation in pink and white of some its leaves but also because of the relatively small (2-5 g) berries it produces, resembling small kiwifruit. There are a number of named cultivars bred for the latter purpose in Russia and Poland, though it takes years for a plant to start yielding, and because A. kolomikta is dioecious, a male pollenizer plant is required for the wild vines and most of the cultivars.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
