Wild vines

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The wild vine is one of the oldest useful plants in the world. In the course of its long evolutionary history, many species have developed. However, wild vines should not be confused with the vine species known as wild vines. The species ranges are a Spiegel of the climate and vegetation history of the respective colonisation areas and provide information about the adaptability of the species. Where the areas of different species overlap, viable natural hybrids could develop through natural hybridisation.

Wildreben auf der Ketscher Rheininsel (Baden-Württemberg)

The picture shows wild vines on the "Ketscher Rheininsel" (a nature reserve) in Baden-Württemberg (Germany).

Age of the vines

Based on the numerous finds of fossilised seeds, wood remains and leaf impressions, radiometric measuring methods have proven that there were wild preforms of vines at the end of the Cretaceous period (early Eocene) and in the early Quaternary period (Oligocene), i.e. around 60 to 80 million years ago. During the ice ages (100,000 to 10,000 years ago), the wild vines native to Central Europe were pushed back to the Mediterranean region and the lowlands of the then non-existent Black Sea and Central Asia.

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Wild vines

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