Vitis cinerea (Engelm.) Millardet

Plants high climbing, sparsely branched. Branches: bark exfoliating in shreds; nodal diaphragms 1.5–3.5 mm thick; branchlets slightly to distinctly angled, densely hirtellous and/or sparsely to densely arachnoid, to glabrate, growing tips not enveloped by unfolding leaves; tendrils along length of branchlets, persistent, branched, tendrils (or inflorescences) at only 2 consecutive nodes; nodes sometimes red-banded. Leaves: stipules 1–3 mm; petiole ± equaling blade; blade cordate, 6–20 cm, usually unlobed to 3-shouldered, sometimes 3-lobed, apex acute to acuminate, abaxial surface not glaucous, sparsely to densely arachnoid or glabrous, visible through hairs, veins and vein axils hirtellous, adaxial surface glabrous or hairy. Inflorescences 10–25 cm. Flowers functionally unisexual. Berries black, slightly or not glaucous, globose, 4–8 mm diam., skin separating from pulp, lenticels absent.

Rich low thickets, bottoms and banks of streams. Grows up trees in forests.

The fruit are eaten raw or dried for later use. They are made into jams and jellies. The sap of the vine is used as a drink.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.