Grape

Vitis vinifera

Vitaceae

The vine that made wine, raisins, and a table cluster — food first, and a very old human partnership.

Ripe fruit is food. This plate is table and wine grape, not fox grape medicine. Raisins are food; the leaf is a dolma, not a tea protocol.

Parts used: Ripe fruit · Leaf (kitchen wrap)
Traditional notes: Kitchen fruit · Wine and vinegar · Raisin · Stuffed leaf
Grow · USDA 6b: Vine, USDA 6–9 for many vinifera; American hybrids colder A named cutting or graft. Match the type to humidity. In work: Aug · Sep · Oct
Harvest: When the seed is brown and the sugar is in the berry, not the calendar.

Vinifera sulks in humid East summers. Hybrids exist for a reason.
Bird netting is not optional if you want a cluster.

Safety

Raisins around dogs Known grape allergy (uncommon)

Companions

Plant with Hyssop, Oregano.

Lore

Georgia (the Caucasus) has the oldest wine jars. Egypt painted the harvest. Islam’s grape is still a table and a raisin. Phylloxera in the 19th century sent Europe to American rootstocks — a quiet graft that saved Bordeaux. The fox grape of the East is a different perfume, and a different jelly.

The Herbarium — a teaching catalog, not a clinic. Traditional use is history, not a prescription. USDA 6b dates are a week either way, not a promise. Do not eat, drink, or harvest a plant you cannot name.