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Vitis tiliifolia
Vitis tiliifolia
- Botanic Family
- Vitaceae
- Author
- Humboldt & Bonpland ex Roemer & Schultes
Common Names
- Caribbean Grape
- Bejuco d'agua (Guatemala
- Panama)
- Water-wise (Belize) Uva Montes (El Salvador)
- Uvilla (El Salvador)
- Water With (Jamaica)
- Water Vine
- Water Tie-tie
- West Indian Grape
- Bejuco Caro (Dominican Republic)
- Parra (Dominican Republic)
- Parra Cimarona (Dominican Republic)
- Gsa-kitsha-dié (Cabécara)
- Bi-kro-kitsha (Bri-brí)
- Bisurur-kitsha (Bri-brí)
- Bi-u-tshá (Brunka)
- Sirisir (Guatuso)
- Uva Cimarrona (El Salvador)
- Miona Negra or Uva Silvestre (Nicaragua)
- Agrá or Bejuco de Agua (Costa Rica)
- Uva de Monte (Ecuador)
Geographical Habitats
- Antilles
- Belize
- Costa Rica
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Leeward Islands
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Colombia
- Ecuador
- Venezuela
- Cuba
- Hispaniola
- Jamaica
- Puerto Rico
- Florida
- Louisiana
- Texas
- Virgin Islands - USA
Natural Habitats
- Disturbed areas
- coastal
- secondary forest
- forest
- thickets
- riverside
- montane areas
Flowering Times
- All year (Nicaragua. Costa Rica) Mar-Apr (Puerto Rico)
Fruiting Times
- All year (Nicaragua
- Costa Rica) Sep (Puerto Rico)
Large dioecious tendril climber to 16m with woolly tomentose or glabrate striate shoots, tomentose stems becoming glabrate. Mucronate toothed leaves, sometimes trilobate, to 160mm x 130mm glabrate or puberulent above densely reddish-tomentose beneath. Axillary panicles to 200mm long of fragrant greenish-yellow or white flowers, petals to 2.2mm long, purple fruit to 12mm diameter
Further References
- Sturtevant 1919
- Mobot
- Neotrop
- The Plant List 2
- FOG
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- USDA
- FOSEUS
- SAFIO
- Kew
- Standley
- PCCA
- Mendoza