{"id":94224,"date":"2026-03-22T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T08:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=94224"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:16:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:46:01","slug":"actinidia-indica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/actinidia-indica\/","title":{"rendered":"Actinidia Indica"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Actinidia Indica Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists from the Botanical Survey of India (BSI) have identified a new species of wild kiwi, Actinidia indica (Actinidiaceae), in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Actinidia Indica<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>new species of wild kiwi.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The species has been recorded only from a narrow stretch <\/span><b>near Ziro Valley<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at an elevation of around 1,725 metres.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It thrives in a biologically rich <\/span><b>transition zone between temperate and subtropical forests.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Features of Actinidia Indica<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Actinidia indica is a <\/span><b>perennial climbing shrub<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reaching 2\u20134 meters in height.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It features densely hairy young branches, large ovate leaves, and white to creamy flowers measuring 4\u20136 cm.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The plant <\/span><b>bears globose, olive-green fruits<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of 2.5\u20134 cm with a distinctive reticulate lenticel pattern, a key identifying trait.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The discovery increases the <\/span><b>global count of Actinidia species to 56,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> only a few of which occur in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/northeasttoday.in\/northeast\/arunachal-pradesh\/new-wild-kiwi-species-actinidia-indica-discovered-in-arunachal-pradesh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NET<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actinidia indica is a newly discovered wild kiwi species found near Ziro Valley, thriving in temperate\u2013subtropical forest transition zones. Read more about Actinidia Indica, Habitat, Features, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":94379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6282,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-94224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-actinidia-indica","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94443,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94224\/revisions\/94443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}