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Vitis hui

Vitis hui is a climbing grape relative from eastern China, grown mainly as an ornamental vine and little known outside its native range. It does best in mild, temperate conditions with a sunny spot and well-drained soil.

Family
Vitaceae (Grape family)
Grows as
Shrub, Climber
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water deeply when the top few centimetres of soil dry out, and less in winter.
Soil
Fertile, well-drained loam; tolerates a range of soil types.
Temperature
10–30 °C; hardy to cold winters but protect young plants below -10 °C.
How easy
Moderate
Edible
Yes, some parts
Native range
China (Jiangxi, Zhejiang)
Climate
temperate

About

Vitis hui is a species of plant in the grape family. It is native to Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces in China, where it is called lu shan pu tao, meaning Mount Lushan grape. It grows in temperate climes, at elevations between 100 and 200 meters in shrublands and along the edges of open meadows.

Vitis hui flowers in May, bearing its fruit in July. It forms non-functional ovaries in male flowers.

Other Vitis plants

Mapleleaf grape · Vitis adenoclada · Summer grape · Amur grape · Canyon grape · Vitis balansana · Vitis bellula · Autumn grape · Birch-leaf grape · Vitis blancoi · North China Grape · California wild grape

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Vitis hui by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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