Vitis cinerea var. helleri

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Read about Vitis cinerea var. helleri in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Vitis berlandieri, Planch. Mountain, Spanish, Fall, or Winter Grape. Fig. 3960. A stocky moderately climbing vine, with mostly short internodes and rather thick diaphragms: lvs. medium large, broadly cordate-ovate or cordate-orbicular (frequently as broad as long), glabrous and glossy above, covered at first with gray pubescence below but becoming glabrous and even glossy except on the veins, the sinus mostly inverted- U-shaped in outline but often acute at the point of insertion of the petiole, the margin distinctly angled above or shortly 3-lobed and marked by rather large, open, notch-like acute teeth of varying size, the apex mostly pronounced and triangular-pointed: stamens long and ascending in the sterile fls., laterally recurved in the fertile ones: clusters compact and compound, mostly strongly shouldered, bearing numerous medium to small (1/3 in. or less diam.), purple and slightly glaucous very late berries which are juicy and pleasant- tasted; seed (frequently only 1) medium to small. Limestone soils along streams and hills, S. W. Texas and Mex.—Well marked by the gray-veined under surface of the lvs. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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