Vitis vulpina
Journal of the scent - vine
The fragrance - vine or winter Vine (Vitis vulpina ) is a climbing shrub with black or dark blue fruit of the family grapevine family ( Vitaceae ). The natural range of the species is in the United States. The species is rarely cultivated.
Description
The fragrance - vine is a 15 to 20 meters high climbing shrub with branched, fox red tendrils. The myelin sheath walls are 2 to 5 millimeters thick. The leaves are divided into leaf blade and petiole. The leaf blade is simple, 10 to 12 inches long, broad - ovate, unlobed or slightly three-lobed with heart- shaped base and a narrow, acute-angled petiole. The leaf margin is serrated irregular and rough with sharp teeth. The upper leaf surface is shiny green, the underside light green and finally along the leaf veins rauhaarig.
The fragrant flowers grow in 10 to 25 cm long, many-flowered panicles. The fruits are black or dark blue, slightly frosted and have diameter of 0.8 to 1 centimeter. The fruits are very acidic and after exposure to frost sweet and edible. The fragrance - vine blooms in June.
Occurrence and habitat requirements
The natural range is in the Easter of the United States, ranging from Indiana, Wisconsin and South Dakota to Florida and Texas. The fragrance vine grows in floodplains and along river banks, on moderately dry, fresh to moist, neutral to alkaline, sandy- gravelly, very nutrient-rich soils in sunny to light shade, cool to cold locations.
System
The fragrance grapevine (Vitis vulpina ) is a species in the genus of grapevines ( Vitis ), where it is attributed to the subgenus Vitis. The genus is in the family of grapevine family ( Vitaceae ) assigned to the subfamily Vitoideae. The species was described in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus first scientifically valid. The genus name comes from the Latin Vitis and is used for the " vine " and the " vine ". The specific epithet vulpina also comes from Latin and refers to the "fox". It does neither on the fable The Fox and the Grapes, nor the color of the vines, but to the peculiar taste of the wines from American wild vines, as Fox - tone (Fuchs taste) is called.
Use
The fragrance - vine is sometimes used because of the fruit or used as an ornamental plant.