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Mustang Grape
Vitis mustangensis
Mustang Grape is a vigorous wild vine of southern woodland edges and fence rows, easy to identify by the white velvety underside of its leaves. Its tough-skinned berries are too astringent to eat off the vine but make good pie, jelly and homemade wine once processed - handle them with gloves, since the raw skins leave an itchy burn on the tongue. It needs a male vine nearby before a female will fruit at all, and it climbs so aggressively that it can engulf and kill whole trees, so it belongs on a sturdy arbor, a fence line, or a tree already written off rather than a young specimen.
Record at a glance
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun · Partial Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 7–9
- Soil
- Sand · Loam · Clay
- Moisture
- Dry · Well-Drained · Moderate · Moist
Vertical layer
Vine- Soil pH
- Not yet recorded
- Plant type
- Vine
- Mature height
- 33 ft
- Mature spread
- Not yet recorded
- Plant spacing
- 15–20 ft
- Root type
- Fibrous-deep
- Spread pattern
- Seed
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