Arctic Beauty
Actinidia kolomikta (Maxim.) Maxim.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 5.3 m
- wide
- 2.4 m
Actinidiaceae
Formerly Actinidia gagnepainii, Actinidia leptophylla, Actinidia maloides, Prunus kolomikta, and 1 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- LianaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Russian Far East to C. China, N. & C. JapanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 4.6 m to 6.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 1.8 m to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -37.2 °C (USDA zone 3b)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -34.4 °C; Wikipedia -40 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Finnish
- Kiinanlaikkuköynnös
- French
- Kiwi Arctique
- Japanese
- ミヤママタタビ
- Dutch
- Ananas Actinidie
- Polish
- Aktinidia Pstrolistna
- Swedish
- Kameleontbuske
- Chinese
- 狗枣子, 狗枣猕猴桃
- Simplified Chinese
- 深山木天寥, 深山木天蓼, 狗枣子
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Actinidia kolomikta (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.