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Vitis vinifera
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Family:
VITACEAE
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Citation: Vitis vinifera L., Sp. Pl. 202. 1753 Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 652. 1875; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 227(163). 1918; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 121. 1984; Shetty & P. Singh in N.P. Singh et al., Fl. India 5: 324. 2000; B.V. Shetty & P. Singh in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 763. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 237. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Munthiri
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Tamil name(s):
Draksha
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English name(s):
Common grape vine, Wine grape, European grape, Grape
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Description:
A large shrub, main stem stout, reaching a girth of 1.5 m. Leaves orbicular, cordate, pentagonal or dissected, 10.5-20 x 7-15 cm, serrate or irregularly dentate, acuminate, cordate, glabrous or glabrescent above, sparsely grey tomentose beneath and glabrescent membranous; petiole 4-10 cm long. Peduncle 4-5 cm long, often bearing unbranched tendril. Flower bisexual or functionally pistillate with shorter sterile stamens, greenish in colour, c. 1.5 x 1 mm; pedicel c. 2 mm long, wiry, elongated and thickened in fruit. Calyx minute, cupular. Petals 5, c. 1.5 mm long, ± lanceolate. Disc with 5 hypogynous glands, adnate to the base of ovary. Berry variable in size, shape and colour, 6-22 mm long, purple, black-violet, red, pinkish or greenish, 2-4 seeded, with juicy sweet or sour pulp. Seed pyriform or ovoid, 5-6 mm long, beaked.
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Habit:
Climber
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Flowering & Fruiting:
Throughout the year
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District(s):
Idukki, Kollam, Palakkad, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Cultivated
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Distribution:
Native of West Asia, widely cultivated
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
Yes
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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