Grapevine
Vitis vinifera
Family · Vitaceae · Harmless
Read this before the sheet
This plant, or one that resembles it, is dangerous. Identifying is not authorising: no app has the authority to tell you that you may eat or touch a plant.
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The same species as the vineyard, climbing trees in river galleries and abandoned walls. The truly wild form is rare and protected in Spain; what you meet on most trails is feral vine escaped from abandoned land.
Streams and ditches · Oak woods · Walls and rocks · Fields and pasture
Also known aswild grape, common grape vine
How to tell it
A woody climber with tendrils opposite the leaves, not in the axil. A large five-lobed toothed leaf with the stalk set in a deep notch. Bark that peels in long strips.
What it is confused with
White bryony
Bryonia dioica
This is the confusion that matters in a hedge. White bryony is herbaceous, with spring-coiled tendrils and poisonous red berries in small clusters; the vine is woody, with peeling bark, and bears grapes. Red berries on a climber are not grapes.
Open sheet →What it is for
Grapes, wine, and vine leaves for wrapping. Grapes from feral vines are small and sour but edible, and make jelly. The young tendrils are sour and chewable.
Traditionally used as food. This is not permission to eat it.