name: Summer Grape

flavor_db_name_variants: summer grape

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Summer grape

id: 227

name_scientific: Vitis aestivalis

description: Vitis aestivalis (Summer Grape) is a species of grape native to eastern North America from southern Ontario east to Vermont, west to Oklahoma, and south to Florida and Texas. It is a vigorous vine, growing to 10 m or more high in trees. The leaves are 7–20 cm long, suborbicular, and usually a little broader than long; they are variable in shape, from unlobed to deeply three- or five-lobed, green above, and densely hairy below. The flowers are produced in a dense panicle 5–15 cm long. The fruit is a small grape 5–14 mm diameter, dark purple or black in color. It is the official state grape of Missouri. There are four varieties: Vitis aestivalis var. aestivalis. Vitis aestivalis var. bicolor Deam (syn. var. argentifolia Fernald; Silverleaf Grape), formerly called Vitis bicolor, but now considered a northern variation of Vitis aestivalis. Native range is in the Northeastern United States and parts of Southern Ontario. Vitis aestivalis var. lincecumii (Buckley) Munson. Vitis aestivalis var. bourquiniana, native to the south, sometimes called Vitis bourquiniana, has tomentose undersides to the leaves.

itis_id: 28607

wikipedia_id: Vitis aestivalis

picture_file_name: 227.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 146695

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:31:55.000Z

legacy_id: 242

food_group: Fruits

food_subgroup: Berries

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:27.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:19.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 3605

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00227