Vitis cinerea

Vitis cinerea

The plant species Vitis cinerea, also called gray bark vine belongs to the genus grapevines ( Vitis ). It is native to the southeastern United States. This wild grape was used to crossing of hybrid vines.

Trivial names in other languages ​​are " Ashy grape ", " Ashy -leaved grape ", " Downy grape ", " Gray back grape ", " Sweet winter grape ", " Parra Silvestre ", " Vigne à feuille de clématite ", " Winter Grape "and" Wichita ".

Ampelographic features

  • The shoot tip is slightly woolly hairy, greenish with rotfarbenem approach. The gray young leaves are slightly hairy and woolly spotted bronze.
  • The large to very large leaves are stalked. The leaf blade is usually unlobed, rarely five-lobed. The petiole is V-shaped open. The leaf margin is serrated blunt. The leaf surface is blistered coarse.
  • The cylindrical to conical, racemose inflorescence is usually shouldered, tall and loose-. The oblong berries are very small and of a bluish - black color.

System

Vitis cinerea resembles the species Vitis aestivalis and was still often equated in the 19th century, or as a variety Vitis aestivalis var cinerea Engelm. classified. Only Georg Engelmann they classified in 1880 as a separate species in Pierre Marie Alexis Millardet: Mémoires de la Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Bordeaux, 2, p 319 The homonym Vitis cinerea Engelm. is often cited but not until 1883 in The Bush Mountain Catalogue, 3, p.17 appeared.

The Vitis cinerea belongs to the group cinereae ( Syn: Group Cinerascentes ) in the subgenus Vitis ( Syn: Euvitis ) within the genus Vitis.

Occasionally, Vitis cinerea differed following varieties:

  • Vitis cinerea var baileyana ( Munson ) Comeaux
  • Vitis cinerea var canescens ( Engelm. ) L.H.Bailey
  • Vitis cinerea Englm. var cinerea
  • Vitis cinerea var floridana Munson
  • Vitis cinerea var helleri ( L.H.Bailey ) M.O.Moore
Crossbreed Hybrid grape Berry Agricultural Research Service Pierre Galet Vitis International Variety Catalogue
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