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Spanish grape

Name for the vine species Vitis cinerea var. helleri (Vitis berlandieri); see there.

One of the five varieties of the American species Vitis cinerea (one of the 30 American species or wild vines). It used to be listed as a separate species under the name Vitis berlandieri, which is still used in many sources. It was newly described in 1880 by the French botanist and vine discoverer Jules Émile Planchon (1823-1888). He named it after the Swiss biologist Jean Louis Berlandier (1805-1851), who had first...

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