Yellow Muscadine

Synonym for the grape variety ; see there.

The white grape variety originates from the USA. Synonyms are American Muscadine, Big White Grape, Bull, Bullace, Bullage, Bullet, Bullet Grape, Green Muscadine, Green Scuppernong, Hickman's Grape, Pedee, Roanoke, White Muscadine, White Scuppernong and Yellow Muscadine. Alongside Alexander, Catawba, Concord, Niagara White and Norton, it is one of the most important historical varieties in the USA. It was one of the first American vines from which an attempt was made to press a wine. All Muscadinia vines are often incorrectly labelled as Scuppernong.

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Parentage

It belongs to the American vine species Vitis rotundifolia, which is the only species of the Muscadinia vine subgenus. These have a different set of chromosomes (2 x 20 = 40) than all species of the vine subgenus Euvitis (2 x 19 = 38) such as Vitis vinifera or Vitis labrusca. It is a purely female grape variety. It is probably directly descended from wild vines. The large, spherical berries are white-green to bronze in colour, so it is assumed to be a somatic mutation (loss of colour) of the dark-berried Vitis rotundifolia. The variety was involved in the new varieties Carlos and Magnolia.

Mother vine

According to legend, all Scuppernong vines descend from a single mother vine called "The Mother Vine". This vine was first mentioned in the 1720s on the property of a Joseph Baum on Roanoke Island near the town of Manteo and is now said to be over 400 years old. This makes it one of the oldest vines in the world. One descendant, Solomon Baum (1813-1898), said that the vine was the largest on the island when he was a child and that his father and grandfather had also known it. The shoots cover an area of 10 x 35 metres. Irrespective of this, many offspring may have been produced by vegetative propagation.

Characteristics

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