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Actinidia rufa
Actinidia rufa is a large climbing shrub in the kiwi family, native to mountain forests of Taiwan, southern Japan and nearby islands. It is a wild relative of kiwifruit, valued for frost tolerance and resistance to bacterial canker, and is grown mainly by specialists rather than as a common garden plant.
Actinidia rufa is a species of flowering plant in the Chinese gooseberry family Actinidiaceae, native to Taiwan, some of the southwestern South Korean islands, the Ryukyu Islands, and southern and south-central Japan. A large climbing shrub, it is found in mountain forests at elevations from 1,000 to 2,000 m (3,300 to 6,600 ft). As a crop wild relative of kiwifruit, it is being studied for its resistance to frost and to bacterial canker of kiwifruit.
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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.
