Snake grapes cannot be eaten.
Snake grapevine is a deciduous woody vine of the Vitaceae family. Branchlets glabrous or occasionally hairy. The leaves are hard and papery, nearly round to broadly ovate, 10 to 15 cm long, with 3 to 5 palmate middle lobes or nearly deep lobes, the apex is acuminate, the base is heart-shaped or nearly truncate, the edges have coarse teeth, and the upper surface is bright. Green, shiny, pale below, hairless or slightly hairy on the veins; petioles are as long as the leaves or slightly shorter, hairless. The cymes are opposite to the leaves, sparse, with slender pedicels; the flowers are small, light yellow; the calyx is cup-shaped; the petals are 5; the stamens are 5, opposite to the petals; the flower disk is shallow cup-shaped, and the ovary is 2-chambered. The berries are spherical, 6 to 8 mm in diameter, light yellow or blue. The flowering period is from May to June; the fruiting period is from July to August. Produced in Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Qinghai, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, and Shandong. It grows on the edge of ravines or on the edge of shrubs or in forests, at an altitude of 400-1100 meters.
Chinese scientific name
Ampelopsis humulifolia Bge
Latin scientific name
Ampelopsis humulifolia Bge
Also known
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Ampelopsis humulifolia (Beijing) and Elderberry (Southern Shaanxi)
Two names
Ampelopsis humulifolia
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Angiosperm
Class
Angiosperm
Family
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Genus
Vitis genus