Vitis ficifolia

Flower name
Vitis ficifolia
Scientific name
Vitis ficifolia
Aliasエビカズラ, 海老蔓, 蝦蔓
Place of originJapan, the Korean Peninsula and China
Place of floweringLow mountains
Flowering seasonJune, July, August
Language of flowersintoxication

What is Vitis ficifolia

Vitis ficifolia or Ebiduru (scientific name: Vitis ficifolia) is a vine-like deciduous shrub in the family Vitaceae, native to Japan, the Korean Peninsula, and China. In Japan, it grows wild in mountainous areas and seaside thickets in Honshu-Shikoku and Kyushu, twining itself around other trees with its curly beard. It is dioecious. The vine can grow up to 5 meters long. The leaves are dark green and turn red in autumn. The leaves are 5 cm to 10 cm long, 5 cm to 8 cm wide, ovate with 3 to 5 deep lobes, and attached in alternate clusters. The leaf margins are serrated and the underside has spider hairs. From June to August, small yellow-green five-petaled flowers are densely produced from the middle of the tendrils or from the axils of the leaves in a grossly conical inflorescence, but the petals of the small flowers fall off with flowering.

rigin of the name

The genus name "Vitis" means "grape vine" in Latin, and the species name "ficifolia" is a compound of "fici" (fig) and "folia" (leaf), meaning "fig leaf. The shrimp color of the shrimp vine refers to a dark reddish brown color.

Common name: Vitis ficifolia, Life form: deciduous vine, Origin: Japan, Korean Peninsula, China, Distribution: Honshu - Shikoku, Kyushu, Living environment: thickets and forest margins in mountains and by the sea, Vine length: 5 m, Vine diameter: cm, Leaf leaf color: dark green to red (at the end of September), leaf length: 5 cm-10 cm, leaf width: 5 cm-8 cm, leaf shape: ovate with 3-5 deep lobes, leaf margin: serrate, leaf underside: light brown or white spider hairs, inflorescence: alternate, dioecious, flowering season: June-August, stem color: green, floret length: 6 cm-12 cm, inflorescence shape: racemose cone Inflorescence, inflorescence length: 6 - 12 cm, flower color: yellowish green, number of petals: 5 but closed, number of stamens:, number of pistils:, flower diameter: small, fruiting season: October - November, fruit type: liquid fruit, fruit shape: spherical like grape, fruit skin color: green to purple (fully ripe), fruit diameter: 0.6 cm, uses: fruit eaten fresh, jam and juice, vine stem and Fruit: green to purple (fully ripe), fruit diameter: 0.6 cm.