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Frost Grape
Vitis vulpina
Frost Grape is a high-climbing wild vine of central and eastern North America, named for fruit that starts out too acid to eat and only turns sweet after the first frost - a genuinely late-season crop, fresh or dried for winter keeping. Beyond the grapes, the leaves wrap food for baking, the young tendrils are edible, and the leaf, bark and root have a history of use for liver, urinary and rheumatic complaints. It climbs hard and high enough to overtop a young tree, so it wants a fence line, a dead tree or its own trellis, and it is controlled by cutting canes at the base rather than trying to kill the crown.
Record at a glance
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun · Partial Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 5–10
- Soil
- Sand · Loam · Clay
- Moisture
- Dry · Well-Drained · Moderate · Moist
Vertical layer
Vine- Soil pH
- 6–7.5
- Plant type
- Vine
- Mature height
- 82 ft
- Mature spread
- Not yet recorded
- Plant spacing
- 12–16 ft
- Root type
- Fibrous-deep
- Spread pattern
- Seed
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