Vitis vinifera, L. Sp. PI.

1. V. vinifera L. Sp. PI. View in CoL 202 (1753).

Stems up to 35 m, climbing over trees, but in cultivation usually reduced by annual pruning to 1-3 m. Leaves 5-15 cm, orbicular in outline, cordate, usually palmately 5- to 7-lobed, irregularly toothed, glabrescent above, often with persistent tomentum beneath. Tendrils branched, normally occurring opposite 2 leaves out of every 3. Flowers numerous, in rather dense panicles, which replace the tendrils in the upper part of the stem. Calyx very shortly 5-lobed. Petals c. 5 mm, pale green. Seeds 2-3. S. & S.C. Europe, extending northwards in large-scale cultivation to c. 52°N in S. W. Poland. Al Au Bu Co Cz Ga Ge G r He Hu It Ju Rm Rs (W, K) Sa Si Tu [Az Be BI Cr Hs Lu Po Rs (E)].