Vitis rubra

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Read about Vitis rubra in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Vitis rubra, Michx. (V. monosperma, Michx.). Red or Cat Grape. Fig. 3959. A slender but strong-growing vine, with small long-jointed angled red glabrous herb-like shoots and red petioles: lvs. small to medium, ovate-acuminate, dark green and glossy, sometimes indistinctly pubescent on the nerves below, the sinus obtuse, the blade either nearly continuous in outline or (commonly) prominently lobed or even parted, coarsely notched: stamens in the sterile fls. long and erect: clusters loose and long-peduncled, branched, the fls. opening very late: berries small and late (1/4 – 3/8 in. diam.), black without bloom, with little juice and commonly containing but a single seed, which is large and broad. Ill. and Mo. to Texas; known mostly along the Wabash River and along the Mississippi in the latitude of St. Louis. G.F. 2:341 (repeated in Fig. 3959).—A handsome plant. V. palmata, Vahl, founded on Virginian specimens, is probably V. vulpina, although it is sometimes made to replace the name V. rubra. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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