Tennessee Smart Yards Native Plants
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Muscadine Grape
Muscadine GrapeVitis rotundifoliaFull to part sun; medium to moderately dry moisture level; rich loamy soil; ? pH.Can reach in excess of 90 feet height; blooms in June; greenish white flowers; ¾ inch, shiny, purple-black to bronze berries ripen in September and October.Growth Rate: FastMaintenance: Does best with plenty of organic mulch. Any pruning best done in winter when plants are dormant; otherwise they bleed profusely (however it is not fatal).Propagation: Easy to propagate by layering or from cuttings of soft woodNative Region: StatewideVigorous vine that climbs by tendrils that wrap tightly around anything they can reach. Does not have exfoliating bark like the River Grape. Grapes (technically berries) have a soft, musky flavored pulp and make good jelly. Cultivars are available with fruit nearly twice as large. Fruit attracts wide variety of birds and mammals.vine;sun;medium;loam |
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How do I germinate the seeds?
Here is a website that tells how to do it, though it does not sound easy.
https://docslib.org/doc/12121051/plant-fact-sheet-vitex-rotundifolia-pohinahina
Hello, we have two different types of grapevine growing. They both are in the tops of very old trees, so we can’t see the leaves. One has smoother greyish bark and is slender, the other has dark peeling bark and can have a very large diameter. How do I know which is wild muscadine? I want to transplant or propagate some. Thanks
The smoother gray bark vines WILL be native wild muscadines. The darker vines rough barked and older bigger ones peeling are native wild grapes, most likely on the sour side and small , size of. A chick pea. The deer and Black Bears,possums and coons love em in the fall, here in Beautiful East Tennessee.
HOWEVER If you are gonna dig and transplant muskys wait till June, when they bloom, apparently are few in the wild, if you plant a buncha males unknowingly , you’ll never have grapes.
Thank you so much for excellent feedback.
ok this sounds stupid but my kids want to try them are they edible
Yes, they are edible. Have fun! Joy Stewart