Kiwi Fruit - Actinidia chinensis - Exotic Shrub - 10 Seeds Artemesia and 'Kachnar' in India and

and 'Kachnar' in India and Pakistan

The fruits are not as pear shaped as other varieties

with pachycaul stems and a stout

Life expectancy is 200+ with 500 yr old specimens disgracefully cut down throughout the 1970s

where it is cultivated as a vegetable in Gondar

Kiwi Fruit - Actinidia chinensis - Exotic Shrub - 10 Seeds Artemesia and 'Kachnar' in India andIn its native habitat Actinidia chinensis grows in thickets, thick (oak) forests (e. g. Quercus aquifolioides, Quercus oxyodon, Quercus lamellosa), and light secondary forests and bushland. A. chinensis prefers slopes and likes also to grow in ravines, top heights of 200 230m, relative to the local microclimate. In Western gardens it may range 10m in all directions, making it unsuitable for all but the largest spaces unless pruned back hard at the end