Vitis rotundifolia Michx.

Plants usually high climbing or sprawling, sometimes shrubby, usually sparsely branched. Branches: branchlets terete to slightly angled, usually sparsely grayish arachnoid, glabrescent, growing tips not enveloped by unfolding leaves; tendrils along length of branchlets, persistent, tendrils (or inflorescences) at only 2 consecutive nodes; nodes sometimes red-banded. Leaves: stipules 1–2 mm; petiole mostly ± equaling blade; blade cordate to nearly reniform, 2–12 cm, rarely lobed, apex short acuminate, abaxial surface not glaucous, glabrous, visible through hairs, veins and vein axils sometimes sparsely to densely hirtellous, adaxial surface glabrous. Inflorescences 3–8(–10) cm. Flowers functionally unisexual. Berries usually black or purplish, sometimes bronze when ripe, glaucous, globose, 8–25 mm diam., skin separating from pulp; lenticels present.

They suit warm humid conditions. It cannot tolerate heavy frost. It should not be grown where winter temperatures regularly go below-4°C. They need full sunlight with good air flow. They can grow on a range of soils but do best on well drained sandy soils with a pH of 5.5 to 6.5. They will not tolerate wet ground. Plants are shallow rooted. It suits hardiness zones 5-9.

Fruit can be eaten fresh but are also used for jams, jellies, sauces, syrups and juices. They can be used for wine.

Plants are normally propagated by layering as cuttings root with difficulty. In mid summer canes of the current seasons growth are bent down and covered with earth. When these have developed roots they can be cut from the parent. Annual pruning must be severe to keep new fruiting wood coming. The basic framework is for a trunk, permanent arms then fruiting spurs. Current seasons fruiting shoots need to be on last year's growth. Shoots from older wood are normally sterile.