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Title Grapes
Caption Vitis rotundifolia Michx. - muscadine
Source Carl Hunter. USDA SCS. 1991. Southern wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. South National Technical Center, Fort Worth.
Date 1991
URL http://plants.usda.gov/java/largeImage?imageID=viro3_003_avp.tif
Creator Carl Hunter
Type Photograph
Copyright 1991
Origin Internet
Notes Hariot; p.9 ‘There are two kinds of grapes . . . one small and sowre … other greater and . . . ofhimselfeiushious (sic) sweet.”; Lawson; p.108 . . . six sorts . . . ; Black Bunch-grape, crimson juice, thick kin, not large, in clusters; Another sort of Black-grape, similar to above but with light colored juice; Fox-Grapes, four sorts; SummerGrapes, ripe in July, do not grow in clusters, 5 or 6 in a bunch, large; Winter-fruit, ripe in Sept., Oct.; Bellis Hariot’s large grape was most likely Vitis rotundifolia Michaux (Muscadine), the smaller, V. aestivalis Michaux (Summer grape) See Radford, 1968, p. 695; The muscadine is also called ‘Summer Fox Grape’ and ‘Scuppernong’.;
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