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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 grape is the primary Muscat variety in Spain, where it is known as Moscatel, though the majority of the country's plantings are used for table grapes and raisins, rather than for wine production. Likewise, in Chile , and Peru most of the Moscatel in both countries is used to produce the distilled drink " pisco ".
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.
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 ...
Muscadine grape seeds contain about twice the total polyphenol content of skins. [34] Grape seed oil from crushed seeds is used in cosmeceuticals and skincare products. Grape seed oil, including tocopherols and high contents of phytosterols and polyunsaturated fatty acids such as linoleic acid, oleic acid, and alpha-linolenic acid. [37] [38] [39]
The native grapes of this region of the southeastern United States include Vitis cordifolia, Vitis labrusca, Vitis aestivalis, Vitis cinerea, and Vitis rotundifolia (muscadine and scuppernong). Early attempts to grow the European wine grape, Vitis vinifera , in the southeastern United States, including 18th century efforts by Thomas Jefferson ...
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
Black Muscat (Muscat of Hamburg) ripening on the vine. Black Muscat (or Muscat Hamburg) is a red Vitis vinifera grape variety derived from the crossing of the Schiava Grossa and Muscat of Alexandria by Seward Snow, Head Gardener to Earl de Grey at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire UK in 1850, according to the Vitis International Variety Catalogue.