Could it be Porceline Vine?

Here is a link that might be useful: Porceline Vine

Or maybe Ampelopsis arborea although I read those have poor flavor so that might not be it either.

Here is a link that might be useful: Ampelopsis arborea - Google images

Pictures? One picture says a 1,000 words...

FataMorgana

I stopped by on a walk again, and was lucky enough to find a small berry with flower still attached - the flower is small (about 2-3 cm) and yellow, this was somewhat wilted so cannot determine shape, but small and yellow - one per berry.

It is not Ampelopsis or Porceline Vine.

Here is one point that may lead us in the right direction - the berries are NEVER pinkish, reddish, etc. They go DIRECT from light green with white speckles (looking almost like a gooseberry, but less translucent and without any lining) - then they are blue-purple-black. The inside pulp maintains a light green to translucent - the seeds themselves are contained within a small sac of juice.

Also, they do not hang in bunches - they hang individually, linearly along the vine. And it is a young, new vine with no wooding or lignification of any sort.

Let me know any more guesses! I'm working on pics at photobucket now.

Could it be a muscadine or scuppernong? I just moved to the South 2 years ago and these grapes grow wild here. I consider them to be a weed. They are large very round and the green ones are translucent the black ones are round also. They are exceptionally sweet with a slight wild aftertaste.

It more looks like it is wild grape, that grows in Europe

Here is a link that might be useful: Flower Names

Not possum grapes?

Here is a link that might be useful: possum grapes

vitis riparia?

Hi all. New in this forum. I've been following this discussion with much interest as it seems to me that wild grape has exploded here in N.E. Wisconsin. To be sure, it's been present forever, but in recent years, I'm just seeing more and more of this stuff, and it's very disturbing as it seems to preferentially be climbing up into my favorite trees...........conifers. It is not at all unusual to see vast amounts of otherwise nice spruce, cedar, and pine utterly grown over with this vine. And it does eventually do the trees in, simply by shading them out.

So I ask, has anybody else noticed what seems like an increase in the presence of wild grape in your area woodlands....especially along roadsides?

+oM

do what i do, take out your pocket knife or a hatchet and cut the vines off at the base of the tree, pull as much off as you can and when it starts to come back baste it with round up on a paintbrush

Thanks tlowery, but I wasn't asking about how to deal with it. Of course I cut it.

I am wondering specifically if others are seeing an increas in their areas.

+oM

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Here's an interesting book about American grape(s)

Here is a link that might be useful: wild vine

What you are describing is muscadine grape.

They are used in the southeast in viniculture.

Makes a very sweet dessert wine, and can grow in salty soils.

Matt

Here is a link that might be useful: Wiki: Muscadine grape

It appears to be that way in So N.H.see alot of folks putting them to use picking the leaves to stuff

Are you sure its not moonseed? The leaves look much like grape and the vines are as you described.

I have found same fruit here in southeast oklahoma, exactly as you describe. Would like to know of it is edible. Have pictures, don't know if I can post them here. will send to email.

Yellow flower, single berries that change from green to black, "semi maple shaped" leaves, growing in Oklahoma..... does it look like this? If so, it's not a grape, but creeping cucumber (melothria pendula). Edible before they turn black.... and apparently may become a potent laxative afterwards.

Here is a link that might be useful: Creeping Cucumber on 'Eat the Weeds'

This post was edited by bostedo on Thu, Oct 3, 13 at 12:47

That's it. Thanks.