Vitis vinifera L.
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| Family: | VITACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Grape | ||||
| Synonym: | Vitis sylvestris C.C.Gmel. | ||||
| Common Name: | Common grape vine, Wine grape, European grape | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | Throughout the year | ||||
| Distribution: | Native of West Asia, widely cultivated | ||||
| Habitat: | Cultivated | ||||
| Uses: | Fruits edible, wine production. A essential oil called grape seed oil is obtained. | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | A large shrub, main stem stout. Leaves orbicular, cordate, pentagonal or dissected, serrate or irregularly dentate, grey. Flower bisexual or functionally pistillate with shorter sterile stamens, greenish in colour. Calyx minute, cupular. Petals 5, lanceolate. Disc with 5 hypogynous glands, adnate to the base of ovary. Berry variable in size, shape and colour. Seed pyriform or ovoid. | ||||