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North Carolina muscadine grapes. There are about 152 [11] muscadine cultivars grown in the Southern states. [12] These include bronze, black and red varieties and consist of common grapes and patented grapes. [13] Unlike most cultivated grapevines, many muscadine cultivars are pistillate, requiring a pollenizer to set fruit.
The scuppernong is a large variety of muscadine (Vitis rotundifolia), [1] a species of grape native to the southern United States. It is usually a greenish or bronze color and is similar in appearance and texture to a white grape, but rounder and larger.
Theories about the origins of Muscat grapes date ancestors of the varieties back to the ancient Egyptians and Persians of early antiquity (c. 3000 –1000 BC) while some ampelographers, such as Pierre Galet, believe that the family of Muscat varieties were propagated during the period of classical antiquity (c. 800 BC to 600 AD) by the Greeks ...
These grapes are part of the Vitis rotundifolia genus, an aptly named genus since Muscadine berries are large, rotund orbs of fruit. Muscadines grow in tight bunches on woody vines and have ...
This list of grape varieties includes cultivated grapes, whether used for wine, or eating as a table grape, fresh or dried (raisin, currant, sultana). For a complete list of all grape species, including those unimportant to agriculture, see Vitis .
A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis. Grapes are a non-climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters. The cultivation of grapes began approximately 8,000 years ago, and the fruit has been used as human food throughout its history.
The varieties of the muscadine grape can be either light or dark and have very thick skins which make them highly resistant to fungal and bacterial diseases that thrive in humid weather. As the health benefits of wine gain significance in the wine industry, so do muscadines, as it is known that their thick skins contain high levels of the ...
Vitis californica, the California wild grape, or Northern California grape, or Pacific grape, is a wild grape species widespread across much of California as well as southwestern Oregon Vitis coignetiae , the crimson glory vine, a species from East Asia grown as an ornamental plant for its crimson autumn foliage