Synonym (also Paine's Early Sanborton, Payne's Early, Paynes Isabella) for the grape variety Isabella; see there.
The red grape variety originates from the USA. The most important of the approximately 80 synonyms are Albany, Albany Surprise, Alexander, Americano, Amerikanska Loza, Pineapple, Ananaszoeloe, Arkansa Grape, Bangalore Blue, Bellina, Black Cape, Blue Isabella, Blue Isabelle, Bromostaphylo, Cap Grape, Cap Wine, Catalan Negro, Champania, Christie's Improved Isabella, Čimavica, Constantia, Constanzia Grape, Dorchester, Edes, Eperzamatu, Fragola, Fragola Crna, Framboisier, Fraula, Fraulaghju, Frutilla, Georgina, Gibb's Grape, Gros Framboisé, Gürcü Üzümü, Isabel, Isabella Blue, Isabella Nera, Isabelle, Isabelle d'Amerique, Isabellinha, Izabella, Kepshuna, Kerkyraiso, Kokulu Üzüm, Koreos, Lidia, Loipe Makedonia, Moschostaphylo, New Hanover, Nostrano, Odessa, Ontessa, Paign's Isabella, Paine's Early Sanborton, Payne's Early, Paynes Isabella, Raisin du Cap, Raisin Fraise, Raisin Framboise, Sainte Helene, Saluda, Sampanija, Sauborton, Schuykill, Schuylkill, Strawberry Grape, Tjortjidica, Tzampela, Tzortzidika, Tzortzidika Chalkidiki, Tzortzines, Utkopro, Uva Cimice, Uva Fragola, Uva Fraula, Vernet, Woodward and Zampela.
There have been various speculations regarding the ancestry, but all of them are not based on DNA analyses. Presumably, it is a seedling of a wild vine of the species Vitis labrusca. This was assumed by the German ampelographer Rudolf Goethe...
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