Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Vitales > Vitaceae > Ampelocissus > Ampelocissus tomentosa

Ampelocissus tomentosa (fox grape)

Synonyms:

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [1]  Deciduous
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Scent [1]  The flowers have the sweet scent of mignonette;
Structure [1]  Vine
Usage [1]  A yellow dye is obtained from the fresh or dried leaves; The plant is used as a rootstock for the common grape, V. vinifera, especially in areas where phylloxera disease is prevalent;
Height [1]  49 feet (15 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Ampelocissus tomentosa

Protected Areas

Predators

Daktulosphaira vitifoliae (grape phylloxera)[3]
Darapsa myron (Virginia creeper sphinx)[4]
Eurhizococcus colombianus[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 4HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 5Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0