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Actinidia deliciosa
(kiwifruit)

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Actinidia deliciosa (kiwifruit)

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Last modified
20 November 2019

Datasheet Type(s)
Host Plant

Preferred Scientific Name
Actinidia deliciosa

Preferred Common Name
kiwifruit

Taxonomic Tree
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Spermatophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Dicotyledonae

Uses List
Beverage base
Fruits
Traditional/folklore

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Kiwifruit nearing harvest

©M.J.S. Morley-Bunker

Identity

Preferred Scientific Name

Actinidia deliciosa Liang et Ferguson, 1984

Preferred Common Name

kiwifruit

Other Scientific Names

Actinidia chinensis Planchon, 1847
Actinidia chinensis var. deliciosa Chevalier, 1941
Actinidia chinensis var. hispida Liang, 1975
Actinidia chinensis var. setosa Li, 1952

International Common Names

English: kiwi
French: kiwi; mus

Local Common Names

China: mihoutao; yang tao
New Zealand: chinese gooseberry

Taxonomic Tree

Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Spermatophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Dicotyledonae
Order: Ericales
Family: Actinidiaceae
Genus: Actinidia
Species: Actinidia deliciosa

List of Pests

Major host of:

Armillaria mellea (armillaria root rot); Armillaria novae-zelandiae; Botryosphaeria dothidea (canker of almond); Botryotinia fuckeliana (grey mould-rot); Brevipalpus chilensis (Chilean false red mite); Diaporthe actinidiae (stem-end rot of kiwi fruit); Hemiberlesia lataniae (latania scale); Hemiberlesia rapax (greedy scale (USA)); Otiorhynchus salicicola; Phytophthora cinnamomi (Phytophthora dieback); Phytophthora citricola (black hop root rot); Phytophthora cryptogea (tomato foot rot); Phytophthora lateralis (Port-Orford-cedar root disease); Phytophthora medicaginis (Phytophthora root rot of lucerne); Phytophthora megasperma (root rot); Pratylenchus vulnus (walnut root lesion nematode); Proeulia chrysopteris; Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi (oleander knot); Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae (bacterial canker of kiwifruit); Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae (bacterial canker or blast (stone and pome fruits)); Pseudomonas viridiflava (bacterial leaf blight of tomato); Scirtothrips dorsalis (chilli thrips); Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (cottony soft rot); Scolypopa australis (passionvine hopper)

Minor host of:

Alternaria alternata (alternaria leaf spot); Anastrepha fraterculus (South American fruit fly); Aonidiella aurantii (red scale); Bactrocera tryoni (Queensland fruit fly); Cadophora luteo-olivacea; Cadophora malorum (fruit rot of apple); Candidatus Phytoplasma solani (Stolbur phytoplasma); Ceratitis capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly); Ceroplastes destructor (white wax scale); Diaporthe ambigua (canker: pear); Halyomorpha halys (brown marmorated stink bug); Heliothrips haemorrhoidalis (black tea thrips); Macrophomina phaseolina (charcoal rot of bean/tobacco); Meloidogyne arenaria (peanut root-knot nematode); Meloidogyne ethiopica (Root-knot nematode); Meloidogyne incognita (root-knot nematode); Penicillium digitatum (green mould); Phyllactinia guttata (powdery mildew of hardwood trees); Phytophthora citrophthora (brown rot of citrus fruit); Phytophthora palmivora (coconut budrot); Planotortrix octo; Proeulia auraria (Chilean fruit tree leaf folder)

Associated with (not a host):

Helicotylenchus dihystera (common spiral nematode)

Host of (source - data mining):

Colletotrichum acutatum (black spot of strawberry); Pestalosphaeria gubae; Phomopsis theicola; Stathmopoda auriferella

Uses List

Human food and beverage

Beverage base
Fruits

Medicinal, pharmaceutical

Traditional/folklore

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