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Vitis cinerea (graybark grape; sweet grape)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Vitis cinerea, the graybark grape, is a variety of grape. It has small black berries that are mildly unpleasant to eat. It grows in Oklahoma and Texas. It is also known by the name "winter grape" or "possum grape." Vitis cinerea is an American native grape. The leaves are cordiform-emarinate, flabby, dull, limb finely wrinkled (like crepe) between the sub-veins. The teeth of the leaf are very blunt. The buds are grey-ashy-violet.
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Infraspecies

Vitis cinerea var. baileyana (Graybark grape)
Vitis cinerea var. floridana (Florida grape)
Vitis cinerea var. helleri (Heller's grape)
Vitis cinerea var. tomentosa

Attributes

Bloom Period [1]  Late Spring
Drought Tolerance [1]  High
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Fire Tolerance [1]  Low
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Frost Free Days [1]  5 months 15 days
Fruit/Seed Abundance [1]  Medium
Fruit/Seed Begin [1]  Summer
Fruit/Seed End [1]  Fall
Growth Form [1]  Multiple Stem
Growth Period [1]  Spring, Summer
Growth Rate [1]  Moderate
Leaf Type [2]  Deciduous
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Propagation [1]  Bare Root, Container, Corm, Cutting
Root Depth [1]  16 inches (41 cm)
Seed Spread Rate [1]  Slow
Seed Vigor [1]  Low
Seeds Per [1]  14000 / lb (30865 / kg)
Shape/Orientation [1]  Climbing
Structure [2]  Vine
Usage [2]  A yellow dye is obtained from the fresh or dried leaves.
Vegetative Spread Rate [1]  Moderate
Flower Color [1]  Green
Foliage Color [1]  Dark Green
Fruit Color [1]  Black
Fall Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Fruit Conspicuous [1]  Yes
Height [1]  50 feet (15.2 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 6 Low Temperature: -10 F° (-23.3 C°) → 0 F° (-17.8 C°)
Light Preference [1]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [1]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [1]  Intermediate
Water Use [1]  Moderate
Screening - Summer [1]  Moderate
Screening - Winter [1]  Porous
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Predators

External References

USDA Plant Profile

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Characteristics of Some Fruiting Plant Species in Northwest Arkansas, and the Avian Assemblages that Feed on Them, John W. Prather, Kimberly G. Smith, Michael A. Mlodinow, Cecilia M. Riley, Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science,Vol. 54, 2000, pp. 103-108
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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